My Boyfriend Didn’t Believe I Was Raped

“If you were blacked out, how do you know?”

Ashley Shannon
Girl, Get Your Shit Together
8 min readSep 6, 2022

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Photo by Edoardo Cuoghi on Unsplash

It was a beautiful spring day, and we were walking around the track at the local high school. The sun was shining, and the sky was blue, creating a vivid contrast against the black asphalt of the track we walked on. My son was running out ahead of us, excited to have as much space to run as he wanted. My boyfriend at the…

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Ashley Shannon
Girl, Get Your Shit Together

Thirty something queer mom of two, one with autism. Lover of sushi, coffee, and wine. Living a life of travel. Top Writer ashleyshannononmedium@gmail.com