![]() ![]() I also ached for the woman who was gang-raped in Delhi. The letters Wuornos wrote during her incarceration on Death Row are full of longing, laughter, and anger. When she became pregnant, her grandfather (who raised her) sent her away. A Led Zeppelin-loving, hip-hugger-wearing hitchhiker who was raped by age fourteen and abandoned. She fought to survive within a system that refused to value and protect the kind of woman she was: five-feet-four inches tall. ![]() ![]() It is both empowering and heartbreaking, because Wuornos represents the fury of a wronged girl-gone-wild, whose rage was unleashed on men. Bring on Aileen Wuornos.ĭear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words is a collection of letters to Wuornos’s childhood friend Dawn Botkin, edited by Daphne Gottlieb and Lisa Kester. Bring on a blonde, butch, Quentin Tarantino-tinted vigilante drifter, rising from the lava with a clenched, wet fist. ![]() Phyllis Cheslerīring on chilly revenge served by an armed prostitute with a hard-on for chicks. You were gang-raped, tied up, sometimes left to die, by so many boys and men, that you had to have been traumatized…No matter how tough a woman or soldier (has) to be, one does not walk away from such torture completely unscathed. ![]()
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