LostMuse
Description
The Girls Who Met Medusa is a powerful poem about rape, victim-blaming, and the painful reality faced by young girls who dare to speak about sexual violence. It challenges the cruel question, "What were you wearing?" and exposes how society sometimes scrutinizes survivors instead of holding perpetrators accountable.
Through Medusa as a symbol of trauma, fear, and the way victims are unfairly portrayed as the problem, this poem gives a voice to girls who were silenced, blamed, doubted, or shamed.
A girl's clothes are never consent.
Her age is never an invitation.
Her silence is never permission.
And rape is never the victim's fault.
This poem is a call to believe survivors, protect children, teach boys about consent and accountability, and create a world where a girl can seek justice without being put on trial for the crime committed against her.