1) 🧵Every once in a while I get in a funk with #PTSD and my history of sexual assault. I have worked my ass off in therapy to figure out who I am and how childhood trauma has affected my life. I was robbed, like so many of you. I have spent a fortune unraveling and putting 2)🧵 the remnants of my life back together. I wanted to be a doctor, an accomplished violinist, fluent in another language, an artist .. I had dreams that were shattered from a rape/ pregnancy at 13. Sexual assaults for some, me , broke my fucking heart.

Yesterday : 1969, I experienced brutal torture and rapes ending in a pregnancy/birth by my father .. #PreRoe Interim: #RoeVWade protects women’s and girl’s reproductive rights
Today: Our #REPRODUCTIVERIGHTS are wiped out. Naw, a child ain’t walking in a police station to file a report. She’d die at the hands of her perp. Where is the outrage?!!! This was me, that sweet kid on right in 1969 .. We are Yesterday. I am yesterday .. You never fully recover. “Hello darkness my old friend , you’ve come to talk with me again”

1) 🧵When I was raped by my father in 1969, and got pregnant, I was sent to a nunnery/ orphanage to have the baby. I was locked in the attic for 3 months and had no air. My meal came. It was a few little things and a raw drumstick. I could not eat it. I left the drumstick . 2)🧵 Sister Mary Ann asked why I didn’t eat it. I told her it was raw. She said, “Mother Marie will be very angry” , and left. Later, Mother Marie came in with three other nuns and said, “Strip it”! I was about 8 mo preg. They took all my bedding and my nightgown and underwear..

@GavinNewsom When I was 13, in 1969 #preRoe, my mother died of a ruptured appendix. Within 2 months of her death, my father violently attacked me and raped me. Instead of getting my period, like all my classmates, I got pregnant. I didn’t know what he was doing.I was forced to carry his baby @GavinNewsom Now, here we are again?!! Children will suffer the unimaginable. I was sent from Ga to NY state to a nunnery/ orphanage and locked up like an animal in sweltering heat.These places further abuse. He told them I was a slut. No, I stayed quiet to avoid death. Hear me, girls died 😡