CW Sexual Assault

So this should maybe be blamed on the alcohol and I might delete these tweets later but here goes nothing. A lot of people know I've been incredibly sad since moving to Iowa but not a lot know why. The summer before I moved to IC I experienced what I now feel

ok calling a sexual assault. Its taken me over a year to feel like I deserve to call it that. Because the encounter started consensual and because I didn't say no, despite being burned, cut, and hit with a wine bottle I felt like I didn't deserve to call it an assault

Thanks to some friends at UI that are so wonderful that I absolutely don't deserve them I now feel ok calling this what it is.

I'm not sharing this for clout or pity or sympathy or whatever people will passively agressively accuse me of doing by being open about this

I do it because it feels good to name what happened. I've been so incredibly ashamed for a long time. And if I'm being honest I still do but for some reason this feels right, at least right now.