I am new to blogging …

I am interested in hearing women’s stories. Particularly stories that recall events around what followed after telling someone about an unwanted sexual experience. We have a lot of names and descriptions for these experiences … I’d like to hear, in your language, your style … who you told, why you told them, and what happened subsequently. Most importantly, I’d like to know what you would have liked to have happened and whether it did.

That’s it for now. Watch this space … I’m hoping to develop some themes and, with your help … to formulate some words to help us with our silence.

The working title of my PhD is:

Speaking of Justice: A critical evaluation of processes that led women to speak about sexual victimisation and rape, where they directed them and how their expectations were met