In response to Walking the Thin Black Line of Violence in the Lives of HIV+ Women by Loren Jones, Board Member, Positive Women’s Network-USA
I was thinking the same thing when I read about a Day of Action to End Violence. Against Women. I was thinking… Where is the solution? Being a woman who has experienced so much violence and you describe it beautifully well; however sad… it’s true.
We wish to teach our children to stand up, to fight, to advocate for themselves. Then the reality of what you’re up against becomes very real.
A friend, a lover, someone you just met. That individual, at some time, decides for you it’s time to pay for this friendship. I want you to love me. Love = Sex (this is why I have so much trouble being in love with anything). You feel the rage roll off them; and to you it’s delivered. Smothering you beneath the stench of lust, lunacy and fear. All the while being the slave to their desires and needs.
To fight back may be easier and sometimes to live you let it play out. Pain, disgust, the fear, my stomach hurts so bad; my head is spinning.
I can’t die like this.
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