The language I use to talk about sexual violence should place the spotlight on the fact that another person perpetrated a crime against me, and we do not call the victim of a robbery a “survivor.”

KATIE SIMON, from “I was raped. Call me a victim, not a ‘survivor’,” The Lily, April 20, 2018

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