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Epiphany 10/17/19 Epiphany 10/17/19

Why Do Women Always Have to Come Out Clean?: An Interview Between Sophia Shalmiyev and Jeannie Vanasco

The shape of violence lives invisibly inside of a woman. Now, the narrator is sharing a sliver of that burden with the perpetrator, and they are both wearing it, or are about to, publicly: she as the author; he, as a man with a pseudonym who has willingly submitted to being interviewed by the woman he wronged when she was a girl.”