After Someone Hurt Me I Wanted to Hurt Myself (Until I Didn’t)

After I was raped I blamed my body to the point of wanting to cut my hands off

Veronica Huerta Foster
Human Parts
Published in
7 min readJan 16, 2020

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InIn September 2016, after heavy drinking at a party, I found myself barely conscious and wondering what had happened to me for the next few days. I felt something was incredibly wrong with my body. I was 21 and naive. Of all…

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Veronica Huerta Foster
Human Parts

Photographer. Former Sailor. EMT/Psych worker. Poet. Captivated from the start.