People Have Mocked Her Story For Years. Now She’s Going Up To The Mic And Taking It Back.

Just to clarify: If you are triggered and traumatized by listening to a speech or conversation about rape and sexual assault, it is within your right to preserve yourself and leave that conversation. That is entirely different from when people casually brush aside rape survivors’ stories as “another rape story” — or, in this case, “another rape poem,” as the spoken word poet so eloquently puts.