The Uncomfortable Truth About My Rape -- & Why I'm Coming Forward Now

Ed. note: The following includes a graphic description of the author's experience with rape. I was raped. This is a very hard thing to say, and I have struggled for decades with the un-sortable Pandora's box of emotions that are released after I say it. The myriad feelings, insurmountable, insuppressible, unspeakable. Yet I must try today to describe the indescribable. I must speak, because right now, women are being told that we can be raped, without consequence, behind a Dumpster. That it's ok...