“… Andrea and I corresponded occasionally. I read her books and became familiar with the thin

“… Andrea and I corresponded occasionally. I read her books and became familiar with the things people said about her, the way people attacked her personally for what she wrote and the way people took her words out of context or simply lied about her. … I began speaking out as a survivor of prostitution and pornography and incidents like that occurred more frequently, only now they were directed at me. One time a woman who worked in a bookstore that sold a lot of pro pornography books chased me down Gorham Street. She was waving an article I’d written about being used in prostitution and pornography. I kept walking, tried to ignore her. She yelled, ‘You can’t say this. You can’t print this. Who do you think you are?’ It was an article about what my father and grandfather did to me. l thought, so much for free speech, but said nothing. I tucked my chin into my coat. It was cold and snowy. Finally, she stopped. I heard the snow crunch under her boots. ‘You’re making me feel guilty,’ she hissed and turned back to her bookstore. So that’s it, I thought. That’s what alI the posturing and attacks are about. Andrea and I and others who speak out make people feel bad.”— “Andrea Dworkin and Me,” by Christine Stark, Off Our Backs (May-June 2005). -- source link

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