Sublime

The floodgates had opened. We didn’t know, as we sat in the courtroom with tears streaming down our faces, that the world had begun to take notice. But as each woman stood to face her abuser and speak the truth, the world was coming face-to-face with the damage of sexual assault in a way it never had before. Jane Doe had a name. She had a story.

On 14 May 2013 actress Angelina Jolie published an article in the New York Times about her decision to have a double mastectomy.

Despite knowing better, we all had to follow the ludicrous Juche system. If your farm didn’t meet its target harvest, the farm manager fudged the account to make it look as if the target had actually been met. But despite all the fairy-tale record keeping, the supply didn’t lie: the food ration distributed every autumn was growing smaller and