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“Rape was where my rebellion started. His sense that—small as I was, an infant—I needed to be controlled was my hint that I had power that had to be curtailed. That I was alive enough to be annihilated. That my survival was a threat that needed to be contained. Rape and sexual abuse made me nothing, and in doing so made me something.” — Roxane Gay
Rape was where my rebellion started. His sense that—small as I was, an infant—I needed to be controlled was my hint that I had power that had to be curtailed. That I was alive enough to be annihilated. That my survival was a threat that needed to be contained. Rape and sexual abuse made me nothing, and in doing so made me something.