A survivor wrote a fictionalized account of abuse and rape, coming to terms with her own trauma. Yes, the fact that she got seven figures for this story when marginalized people were excluded from sharing theirs is messed up. But the discourse has shifted now.
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Now, the argument is that she couldn't possibly have written a fictionalized account of abuse if she was a real survivor, because REAL survivors wouldn't want to fictionalize it. Now, the argument is because the MC is still suffering at the end of the book, it's bad rep.
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Because of this, the author has been forced to out herself as a victim, retraumatizing herself. I cannot even imagine how painful that must be. Survivors are not a monolith. There are so many ways to experience abuse and live through it and grow and heal.
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That's what My Dark Vanessa was about: how complicated and frought and messy recovery can be. The fact it was so easy for "woke" twitter to claim a survivor must be lying because her experience didn't match theirs, or because she processed it in fiction, is terrible.
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I wish it had been possible for us to discuss the very real exclusion of WOC stories from traditional publishing without legislating another survivor's experiences as Real or Not Real, but it was not. And that's very saddening to me.
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But perhaps not surprising. I've encountered reviews of my own books saying Dara doesn't act like a real sexual abuse victim because he is promiscuous, an addict, angry. I've seen people claim the rep--based off my experiences--is bad bc Dara doesn't act how a victim should act.
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“Survivors are not a monolith.” This is so important. So many survivors don’t recognize themselves as such bc they don’t fit the social construct of who and what a survivor is and does. I’m constantly asked if their varied responses are “normal” & the answer is YES!!!
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I am sorry that happened to you. I am a childhood victim as well. What is a victim supposed to look like? A lot of my trauma and loss has made its way into my writing. This makes me so angry
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Same. Several years ago I started a fictionalized take of me having a violent encounter with my rapist decades later. We work with our pain the best we can and sometimes it’s through fiction. Because nonfiction can be even more frightening.
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