New Column for Women’s Web: What If I Hadn’t Escaped The Stalker I Had When I Was 21?

It has been years since I last wrote a column. And I’m happy to start a new monthly one with Women’s Web on topical issues that cut deep and personal. Here’s the first one:

“Why do I speak of a single instance of stalking I experienced decades ago in the same article as a horrific gang rape that mauled and mutilated a young girl, a woman being chopped up into pieces by her live-in partner, a harassment that ended in a woman losing her ten-month-old baby all in the same space? After all, nothing did happen to me, did it? I was not harmed, I wasn’t even touched. It was just implicit the threat of violence, the person shadowing me every single day, making me uneasy enough to drop my course. It was the appropriation of me without my consent by someone I did not know.”

Read the article here