A public reading was held at Pacific University in December 2017.
An interview based verbatim play, telling the stories of four college students as they navigate through the treacherous waters of sexual violence and recovery.
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"I was kinda scared. But then he pulled away from me and put his forehead against mine, and I thought 'this is okay' and I tried to make myself calm down a little. Then he kissed me and I remember thinking 'Woah' and I couldn’t breathe for a moment, I felt like the world was a vortex." |
"He never really forced me to have sex, I don’t think. Like um sometimes there was pressure to, but I never thought 'Oh if I say no, he’s gonna force it on me.' It was like if I say no he’s gonna stop. Like he might be a little horny and sad about it, but he won’t get violent. It was also never 100% okay to be like 'Nah, I don’t want to, not tonight'."
"But there was a point where he, one of them - well actually, a friend of mine, totally took advantage of me. Like stripped my pants off of me, and you know started doing things to me. I have a vague memory of it, um I didn’t really know what was going on. So and for, for the longest time, I kinda like held that against myself. Like 'Oh that was totally your fault, you could’ve prevented that if you were just not so dumb.'"
