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niyad

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Mon Mar 16, 2015, 09:48 PM Mar 2015

the phone rang-it was my college rapist (trigger warning)

As told to Jen Sorensen by Anonymous

In November 2014, not long after the Bill Cosby rape allegations blew up in the news, a friend of mine reached out to tell me her own story of sexual assault and asked if I would draw a comic about her experience.

The friend, whom I’ll call Alison, was assaulted after unknowingly ingesting some sort of tranquilizing agent during her senior year at college in the early 1970s; she was 21 years old. Alison says that her goal in telling her story is not to incriminate her assailant but to raise awareness about what she calls “an insidious problem of powerful men who think they can get away with abuse.” Although some details have been changed to protect identities, I have tried to tell Alison’s story in her own words as much as possible.—JS

the entire strip at link:

http://fusion.net/story/60581/the-phone-rang-it-was-my-college-rapist/

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the phone rang-it was my college rapist (trigger warning) (Original Post) niyad Mar 2015 OP
That was powerful. nt Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #1
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