Xoe↔ Sazzle, community liaison officer for the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition (TTTC). -
REMEMBER the day you realised you were a boy or girl? Remember how that felt? Was it just a single day or a process? Did it take years of realising what gender meant? Did you have to peel back the layers of what it meant to be a boy or a girl – to keep or discard what felt right for you?
Did you just go along with what your family and society expected of boys or girls, for instance that girls should wear pink dresses and boys should not cry?
Rape survivor still struggles: Why am I alive? - Digital imaging by Jemuel Richmond
Andrea Bharatt s murder awakened a trauma for many women who were victims of violent attacks. One of them, who is now married, shares her challenges today, 20 years after she was raped, with WMN writer Carol Quash.
“I always wonder what is so special about me. Why me and not Pixie Lakhan, Ashanti Riley, Shannon Banfield and all the others who have been raped and brutally murdered? Why am I alive today, and they are not?”
Dianne (not her real name) closed her eyes in an attempt to hold back the tears that were forming. But they eventually seeped out and slowly rolled down her cheeks. For even though more than two decades have passed since she was raped by someone whom she had met about a month earlier, she relives that experience almost every day, and that one question keeps popping up.
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