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'He sat me down on his lap'

Sexual Harassment
"He sat me down on his lap. My mind went blank. Even at age eight with no experience of anything sexual I knew I had to get away and fast.” Pranaadhika Sinha Devburman says life was cruising along until she was sexually abused by her caretaker.
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Living a silent lesbian life in Pakistan

Sexual Orientation
Fatima leaned in to share a secret she had revealed to only a few people: "I'm lesbian," she said hesitantly. "I think I knew since a very early age. It felt quite isolating. Like, I didn't see people or kids around me feel the same way."
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Avoiding India’s gropers

Sexual Harassment
Every single girl I talked to had been groped, fondled, or pinched sometime or the other. When I asked my girlfriends if they’d ever had an experience with someone ‘copping a feel’, the memories came flooding out .