How Revealing!
This a safe space to share your experiences of sexual assault, gender-based violence, sexism and bystander intervention. You can post anonymously, be of any gender identity and need not be someone who has directly experienced it.
How Revealing seeks to help reduce victim-blaming and shaming, and the stigma and silence surrounding gender-based violence and sexual assault. You can also look up support organizations if you need.
I was in 5th grade when this happened to me for the first time.
I was in 5th grade when this happened to me for the first time.
I used to study in a boarding school in which classes 5th till 12th lived in the same building and shared washrooms too. I remember it quite well, it was Saturday night and on Saturday nights ...
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Hospital Weirdo Update
For those of you who read my original posts, "Hospital Weirdo" Parts 1 & 2, here’s an update on that situation.
On February 24th of this year, I came across a Facebook post from my local police department. It said that the guy from the hospital had been ...
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I ran and ran
I was a sophomore in high school as i was abandoned by my friend group at the time so they could go get pizza. I wanted to watch the game as my friend was playing in it, but they just left without telling me. I was alone and the anxiety ...
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Reality of indian guys
I went for a eid-milaad rally with my family so one uncle was following me for whole time and wanted to come close to me as I was with my mom and sis he couldn't. That day I told my mom he's following me, starring me buy she ...
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trust yourself, youre not wrong
when i was in 9th standard 2021 i was sent to a math tuition by my parents as i was not great at math, my tutor was from the school my mother once used to teach in and at that time i didnt know how to drive yet so i was ...
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I have never cycled faster in my life
I was returning from college. I had won a prize in short-story writing and was quite happy thinking about the day. I was wearing a blue salwar with a pink shawl. It was my go-to dress for lazy days. My house was hardly 10 minutes away when a bike whizzed past ...
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I was raped in my boarding school.
I was in 5th grade and he was in 11th grade. I was studying in a prestigious boarding school in Assam. I was abused every day for an year untill I left that school.
He was huge and the first time he touched me was in the showers.
I was ...
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It almost seems it never happened
There's something I just wanted to get off my chest and finally share because it's been on my mind for a while now, and I have no idea what to do with it.
Like, I don't even know whether this is the right platform for sharing something ...
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I’m always angry
I’ve always been in some ways quite a tempered person. But- it seems as though my rage has only grown. It never leaves me- it just moves. Either to my heart, or my hands, or to my chest. And I don’t think it’ll ever ...
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I still remember
The summer I was 12, going into 8th grade, I was in the pool at camp, night swimming at camp. It was the most exciting night activity, I had been excited for a long time about it. I was on a counselor’s shoulders, doing a chicken fight, when I ...
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