Dear Harvard
From the Harvard Crimson. A friend posted this on Facebook and couldn't not post it somewhere. It is a very good account of the type of internal trauma that someone can go through when the world around them, especially the structures of power that they are supposed to trust, casually dismiss them or tell them that nothing can be done. You end up taking on all the diffuse violence that passively sits in the world, uncaring and banal. It is from The Harvard Crimson: Dear Harvard: You Win By Anonymous 21 hours ago Editors’ Note : This is a first-person, present-tense account of the aftermath of a sexual assault that took place in 2013. For reasons of both style and substance, we have left it in present tense. I’m writing this piece as I’m sitting in my own dining hall, only a few tables away from the guy who pressured me into sexual activity in his bedroom, one night last spring. My hands are trembling as they hover acro