Rape and Racism: Why Tufts didn’t care I was Raped

[mon_deluge]

from Raped at Tufts
A rapist has taken away perhaps the most fundamental right that any human being has, and one that all women, people of color, trans people, and children have stolen from them on a regular basis: the right to control one’s own body. The impacts of this theft of choice can last a lifetime.

-- Supporting a Survivor of Sexual

Comments

[staygoldpnyboy]

:( very well written. im sorry it happened like that.

[mon_deluge]

thanks! me too =(

[notacrnflkgirl]

Added to memories. Thank you so much for continuing to write about this.

♥

[mon_deluge]

thank you :)

[iyokuhosoidesu]

That is written very well. It's awful that things went the way it did especially because of race... it's like missing white girl syndrome. But I do admire your ambition to face this head on and advocate so foolishness like this ends.

[mon_deluge]

thanks!

And yeah it definitely is like the white girl syndrome. A lot of the places I quoted noted how society freaked over violence against white women but no one gives a fuck about women of colour. Pisses me off.

[anna_darkholme]

Have you ever thought of writing a book? You write very well.

Have you ever read "Lucky" by Alice Sebold?

[mon_deluge]

Aw thank you!

And yes I have! It's good even though it was really hard for me to read. I also have The Lovely Bones.

[anna_darkholme]

I read it a few years ago for one of my psych classes. I think it's interesting how her story compares to yours (no one didn't believe her for a second, they were all there for her, catering to her needs and such.. and even assumed her rapist was black - I remember her one friend's black bf felt like he had to make it up to her or something because of that - while many people aren't even willing to believe you because of your race).

[mon_deluge]

omg yeah. that's exactly why it was hard for me. It was like the complete OPPOSITE of my experience. lol She was like the white virgin who got raped by a stranger in the street. So while she obviously went though something very fucked up, she had a lot of things on her side (i.e. actually being the rape myth).

and omg i remember that part with her friend's black bf. that was so weird. lol

[dirrtymyke]

i got bumps reading this.

[mon_deluge]

thnx bb i hope it was in a good way :)

[dirrtymyke]

yeah it was in a good way. im sad you went through it, but i just know its gonna be good not only for you, but for anyone else who has to go through this in any shape, way, and form.

::huggs::

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[rivka_shekinah]

The few times I attempted to point out the men who had raped me to the police on patrol, they yelled at me for being on campus and "endangering myself." I was invited one time to speak to the people who lived right near I had been harmed, and when I told them this the police again yelled at me--in spite of the fact that I was trying to take action to protect other women from being hurt the way I had been. My actions were perfectly legal.