Don't be shy.
The Women In The Bus Were Commenting On The Dress Two Girls Were Wearing & I Had To Intervene
“Once while I was travelling in a bus, there were these two girls who were coming back from, what looked like, sports practice. They were wearing shorts and loose t-shirts. ...
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The baby was yelling and crying frantically
This was about 7 years ago. My cousins and I went to a local park with our kids that evening. On our way out, my cousin noticed a man carrying a baby girl in his arms to a side of the park where no one usually goes.
The baby was yelling ...
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All of this happened in our family homes.
We had a male cousin living with us. He is easily over a decade older than us. At the time of this incident, I must've been 5 or 6 and my sister maybe 7 or 8. I don't remember much accept that when we wanted to play, the games would eventually end ...
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Stories of abuse get buried deep. Sometimes it takes years to bring them out.
Stories of abuse get buried deep. Sometimes it takes years to bring them out. Of the many experiences of abuse I had when I was a child, I only told my parents of one. That too after much thought. I was only nine or ten and did not want to ...
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First Date
It was my first date. He force-fed me vodka and he tried to rape me in the front seat of his car. I fought back so hard and was able to get out of the car while it was still moving. My parents called his parents and threatened physical violence ...
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So no, I don't feel safe.
So when I went to journalism school, I lived at home, and I always envied hostelites for the bonds they'd make which I could never be a part of. I wanted to be a part of something like that but I never had that experience.
So I attended one ...
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How the Sexual Abuse monster did not wait for me to become a fully grown woman
Most of my experiences were in India growing up, and ended once I left the country for good. I don't really give a toss about being unpatriotic, sorry. My own skin and dignity comes first. This is my story.
After all these years, I don’t know who ...
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Betrayed by the People Who Were Supposed to Protect Me
When I was 19, I had my worst heroin overdose. I woke up in the hospital and was transferred still drugged to a hellhole of a psych ward for “detox”. I put detox in quotations because I was kept on massive doses of Valium the whole 2 weeks I was ...
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I was 7. I was home. I was supposed to be safe.
I was 7 and at my favourite aunt's place. She has two sons. One of them changed 'home' for me from a 'safe place' to an unknown feeling of emptiness.
Yes, I was 7. I was wearing kids clothing. I wasn't out in the dark, I wasn't with ...
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You are not the problem, even if it feels as if you are.
From 2013 until 2017 when I finally quit my job I was sexually harassed by my boss. My boss, the man who had a bible on his desk and who thought anyone who was not Christian was wrong. I worked in the same place for 15 years. I had plenty of bosses who ...
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