not okay

no it is not okay
it is not okay and it has never been okay
but it continues
for 58 years
58 years of the memories
of sexual assault
interrupt  my day
every days for 58 years
58 years of resilience
a lifetime of activism
against prevelant rape culture
women as objects
valued for sex
over character and ability




possibility aborted by sexism

in my family
and these are only the ones i know about
i was sexually assaulted by older brother from age five until age thirteen
then raped at gunpoint at age thirty, my daughter lay asleep next to me in my bed
don't scream or ill kill you
make sure she doesn't wake up
that same daughter sexually assaulted by a stranger who grabbed her off the street
that same daughter raped at knife point again by a stranger who grabbed her off the street and forcibly raped her
and those are only the ones i know about