Avocado by Sophie Trevitt

About

Author Sophie Trevitt

Sophie is a legal aid lawyer and occasional writer. She has been published in a range of online publications and writes political opinion, short stories and performs the infrequent piece of spoken word. Sophie writes about the things she loves, hates and which cause discomfort - which in no particular order include gender, prisons, refugees and climate change. You can find her at her Blog: https://politicability.com/

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Avocado by Sophie Trevitt

I am eight. I am eight, and I am an avocado in a flock of magpies and I want to be a magpie so badly that it makes my fingers curl. I want to know what it feels...

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Discovering Electricity by Abby Cummings

I’d be lying if I said my interest in forensic psychology wasn’t partially fueled by a need to prove I no longer feared men like him, at least in the beginning,...

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What Insomnia Told Me by Märtha Custis

Fear silences our voices and daily we convince ourselves that life is fixable, that it gets better and becomes whole again. But the fact is that it doesn’t, at ...

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#MeToo: Over It by Shannon LeBlanc

My friend, however, already had a concrete notion what the pronoun "it" did. Rather than calling the rape—the one I had experienced months earlier—by its name, ...

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The Fade By Sara J. Sutler-Cohen

But I only knew the mechanics of sex, not its consequences. Who does at thirteen?

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Seeing Red by Shannon Tsonis

It’s got to be near three in the morning and my head still stirs with all the alcohol I had helped myself to. The alcohol I didn’t buy but paid for. Dearly.

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Anonymous Online Writing Workshop for Sexual Assault Survivors

July 9- August 20 *Only 7 Spaces are Available.* Has your life been altered by the trauma of sexual violence? Could your testimony inspire people to act? Are yo...

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#MeToo: The Child is Beautiful by Jade Gleason

TRIGGER WARNING: This #MeToo essay contains references to child sex trafficking and its effects on the writer. You will cry and, bit by bit, it will break your ...

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Before #MeToo by C. Flanagan Flynn

Soon enough it’s clear he’s hellbent on spreading the rumor he fucked you—or is it fact? You’re a 13-year-old freshman who drank a pint of Southern Comfort, bla...