I was 17 years old the first time I heard the word rape in relation to sexual violation. Before this, rape was the spinach-like vegetable that I ate as a child in Zambia – which I now know to be kale. I was in my first year of university and a friend called to say someone we knew was raped and needed our assistance. Although I didn’t know what assistance I could offer, the distress in her voice jolted me …
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When I was a kid, I was physically more developed at a younger age than most of the kids in my classroom and my year group. By age 10, I was already 5’2″ and had started …
Before this week, I thought rape was some far-off concept, an event that only happened to the blonde girls in movies or women who walked alone at night. Never would I have guessed that it could …
I am shocked that even up till now I can’t still write about abuse; mine. I live in a country where everything is given to God. Whereas this may not be an entirely bad thing, I’ve …
I like the idea of an alternative valentine’s day…like many of you I believe we should show love every day, and not on one day that has become overly commercialised. At the same time I think …
Yesterday, I confessed to my friends that till I met my boyfriend, all the guys I dated had some kind of forceful sexual intercourse with me. Ladies, you know what I’m talking about- the kind of …
My uncle raped me when I was four. Sometimes, I ask myself what he found so attractive about me at that age to make him do that to me. Was it my flat, unripe bosom? Or …
She went to the village for the first time in years to visit her extended family. One day she’s home alone and her cousin’s husband enters the room where she is and locks the door. He …