Thanks for the Memories, Donald Trump.

(October 10, 2016) Note: I wrote and posted this blog post almost two years ago. And then -- Donald Trump came along. And I was reminded -- in the most disturbing of ways -- that these stories are so many women's stories. As mild as they may be, they are scarring. As quotidian as they may be, they are wrong. Donald Trump has triggered our traumatic memories of sexual violence. I want to join the chorus of women who are saying, "I don't want to be silent anymore. If my silence is my complicity, then I will be loud." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had no intention of telling her. No intention, in fact, of sharing my story of the bizarre sexual assault or assault-lette that occurred last weekend -- beyond my husband and the Facebook message I hurled like a scared grenade immediately after it happened to two of the most reflective feminists and genuinely empathet