WMC Women Under Siege
February 07, 2012 | Karestan C. Koenen |
Disability,
Health,
International,
Violence against women,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Fallout: How rape has affected the women I study, and my life
I was sexually abused at the age of 6. I did not know this experience was merely an initiation into sexualized violence that seems, too often, throughout the world to be as inescapable a part of becoming a woman as menstruation. My experience of sexualized violence culminated in being brutally raped while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa.
WMC Women Under Siege
From darkness, dignity: Why sexualized violence must move from the shadows
When I was overwhelmed by a mob of men in Tahrir Square in Egypt last February, I was filled with the certainty that I would die there. In my mind I could see an image of my body lying discarded in the dirt.
It struck me that it would be a truly meaningless death.