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When survivor labels feel limiting rather than empowering

I was sexually assaulted five years ago and everyone says I'm a 'survivor' but that word makes me feel like my trauma defines me when I'm trying to be whole again.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

She's resisting how trauma categories can become totalizing identities that obscure her complete humanity.

Ideas that help explain it
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