Survival

I Don’t Get Over Things by Forgetting Them. I Do It by Remembering & Making Sense of Them.

You Shed F*cks As the Years Go On

I Used to Think Loving Someone Meant Never Hurting Them

What It Was Like Growing Up Bisexual & Being the First Girl In My Class to Develop

When You Can’t Claim Your Abuse Without Naming Your Abuser

I Learned in Elementary School that People Will Touch Your Body Without Permission

How to Hear the Secret “For Me” that Other People Miss

Abused Kids Get to Look Like Their Bullies

Why I Don’t Like to Write Fiction: Comforting My Own Ghost

We Were All Charlie Howard: Growing Up a Queer Anyone in Maine