Karen Stefano is the author of “What a Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault And Its Aftermath," the short story collection “The Secret Games of Words," and the how-to business writing guide “Before Hitting Send.” Her work has appeared in California Lawyer, Psychology Today, The Rumpus, The South Carolina Review, Tampa Review, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is also a JD/MBA with more than 20 years of complex litigation experience.
News of Weinstein’s probable escape from justice propels me back to my own assault—to my hours on the witness stand, to the moment 12 people told me with their verdict we don’t believe you.
Her voice was low, calm. Powerful. “Don’t you ever fucking do that to a woman again.”
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