2018-07-18
22 分钟Modern.
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Hey, just a quick heads up before we get started.
This episode deals with sexual violence, and it may not be for everyone.
From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
When Aspen Mattis started hiking the Pacific crest trail, she was looking for solitude, safety, escape.
She writes about it in her essay, which is read by comic and actor Cameron Esposito.
Cameron's stand up special is called rape jokes and explores sexual assault from the survivor's perspective.
When I was packing to leave college in the spring of my freshman year, shoving jeans and t shirts and mittens into my suitcase and crying, I spoke with my parents on the phone.
I told them I was unimpressed by school.
I told them I was cold in Colorado, even in April.
But I'd already told them what really made me decide to leave.
I had been raped.
On my second night at school, I had invited a girl and two boys I'd met, all of us new freshmen, to watch the breakfast club in my dorm room.
Classes hadn't yet begun, and we were wandering from dining hall to orientation activity to campus safety lecture without certainty or friends or direction.
When the movie ended, the thin boy left with the freckled girl.
A half minute later, I said an awkward bye to the other boy, who was sitting on my bed.
He did not leave.