'This pandemic-creating virus may be new, but harm caused by the body’s desperation to survive is not. I know this because I’ve lived it.' By AdrienneLaw:
The new coronavirus has brought survival to the forefront of the conscience of many. Still, we do a disservice by not acknowledging those who were fighting to survive before the pandemic and will continue to fight after it passes.
As April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this piece celebrates the bodies of women who have overcome sexual violence. These nameless and faceless figures have fought off self-destruction, embracing their physical essence and reclaiming their bodies as their own. Like any other life form, they just wanted to survive.
Given that, when I had the opportunity to do a thesis for my graduate degree in journalism this spring, I was moved to capture the images of women who had survived sexual violence and its cruel aftermath. The women I sat down with and subsequently photographed were as bold and unapologetic when sharing their stories with me as their respective assailants were in trying to take away their dignity.The coronavirus pandemic and the response by federal, state and local authorities is fast-moving.
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