In an excerpt from the book Pretty Bitches, Kate Harding examines why some people prefer "victim" and some prefer "survivor" after a sexual assault.
Kate Harding
Kate Harding is a contributor to the essay collection Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women and the author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture–and What We Can Do About It and the upcoming Victim Complex: On Snowflakes, Witch Hunts, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility.
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