You dissociate. You give your body over to your survival instinct and you tuck every other part of your being into a place that can’t be touched. This happens no matter who you are, whom you know, how much money you have—but when it’s over, poor women find ourselves not only less able to retaliate, but also less able to recover.
Author: Elizabeth Brico
Elizabeth Brico is a freelance writer forever from the Pacific Northwest. Her work, which often focuses on mental health, addiction and social justice, has appeared in Vice, Vox, Talk Poverty, Filter Magazine, Politico Magazine, Undark, Ozy and The Fix, among others. She is a 2019 Reimagining Communities fellow with the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and a 2019 reporting fellow with talkpoverty.org.