Desperate, she looked for more information online and bought a set of dilators to slowly help her muscles relax upon penetration.
The next day I tried to talk to him, to tell him what had happened wasn't okay.
We are on alert at all times.
Instead we have a candidate saying: I am more powerful than you, I can do what I want.
He lifted me up by my armpits, sat me on the kitchen counter, leaned over me and slid his tongue into my mouth.
Sometimes we harm or self-injure, treating ourselves as poorly as we have been treated.
The police told me it was the fault of the immigrants.
Sometimes I see women who are small — thin arms and tiny waists — and I wonder how they can stand to be in this world.