*Content Note: discussion of online abuse and rape*

It’s 2012. I log into Facebook and notice an onslaught of messages from a known TERF. She’s calling me a “woman-hater,” and I haven’t had my morning coffee yet. She’s upset because I blocked her from the Facebook page I created, Guerrilla Feminism, after she wrote transphobic comments. Her retaliation? Threatening, hate-filled DMs, oh, and she bought the domain name: guerrillafeminism.com. When I try to access the site, it goes straight to her personal website.

When I created Guerrilla Feminism/The Guerrilla Feminist, I was coming to terms with having been raped at the age of eighteen. Little did I know that I would be assaulted again in 2013, 2015, and 2016. I would relearn that rape is rape; that partner rape isn’t “less serious” than stranger rape; that being inebriated doesn’t mean I “asked for it.” One way that I attempted to heal from my own assaults was to situate it into the broader context of rape culture and finding feminist community online.