Andrea Skinner, the youngest daughter of Alice Munro, shared an essay this week about being sexually abused by her stepfather. Speaking up doesn't come without pain and loss and years of work to recover from the violence she suffered and from her mother’s horrifying betrayal, writes Janet Chwalibog. What it does come with is courage.
This June 25, 2009 file photo shows Canadian Author Alice Munro at a press conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday Oct. 10, 2013.
I want to gather all the victims and survivors in a single place and I want to give all of us, one by one, a standing ovation. For showing up. For refusing to shut up, even if the only person we tell is ourselves. For refusing to have good manners, to make other people comfortable, or to protect our abusers who are so often our parents or guardians.
Survivors are not rare. We are here, in your midst. We are on the text chain, in the subway car, at the grocery store ringing up your purchases as you complain about cancel culture and another great author being brought down.
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