Misogyny and The Cost of Not Disappearing

Misogyny and The Cost of Not Disappearing

What it's like to survive domestic abuse — a story that took 20 years to write.

I don’t cry often, and when I do it’s because something has reached a depth that my body refuses to hold any longer. In the last twenty years, every time I have cried I could name the wound the tears flowed from. This time I couldn’t.