I Am Not A ‘Rape Victim’ — I Contain Multitudes

By Linnie Greene

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Content warning: sexual abuse

I am in the fetal position, curled up like a shrimp against the draft coming in through the window at my back. In my dorm room the year before and in my queen size bed at home, at my parents’ house, I would sprawl out like a starfish, fingers reaching for every corner of the mattress.