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An article looking at the transition from 'victim' to 'survivor' when referring to people who have experienced sexual assault, and the potential weight 'survivor' carries
The Forced Heroism of the 'Survivor'
For most of her life, Virginia Woolf suffered from what she called "looking-glass shame," an aversion to seeing herself in mirrors. She wrote about it late in her career, not long before her suicide, recalling that the trouble began with one particular mirror.
nytimes.com



