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What followed next was the aftermath of that assault, treated with grace and empathy, in tandem with both mundane and significant events of her life.īoth The Tale and I May Destroy You attempted to push a hard truth-of navigating the complicated terrain of consent and sexual coercion fraught with legal hurdles. Her story was also her own: Her drink was spiked at a bar and she was raped.

Michaela Coel, in her award-winning I May Destroy You, also examined a path back from sexual abuse. Fox pulled off a visual coup in The Tale: She prodded the memories till they tumbled out, and in their truest form. There is, perhaps, no balancing act. Įven if memory becomes clearer, we are already farther from accountability. We can explain away the most obvious suffering, even to ourselves. A fragmented memory can lead us to participate in our own lies. This is, after all, one way to deflect trauma. Fox said:  “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” The Tale was Fox’s story: How she created an alternate version of her childhood sexual abuse so that what truly happened could be forgotten, or at least be made bearable enough to live with. Our first brush with the reality-check arrived with Jennifer Fox’s gripping albeit disturbing memoir, The Tale. There is also a toxic myth we teach ourselves: If we don’t remember it, it probably did not happen. Or she could set herself off on an unremitting trajectory of confusion and chaos. Discussing details with her often felt like negotiating transactions: She could either give herself the comfortable space of minimising her own experience -whatever she remembered of it-and make life a little easier to navigate. From the Magazine Complex Laws, Bureaucratic Tangles Make Adoption A Long, Painful Journey For Indians Transgenders In India Still Struggling For Right To Adopt Or Marry Passing On Love Is More Important Than Genes: Prasoon Joshi Makes A Case For Adoption Paternitas Interruptus: Adoption Is Still Not A Preferred Choice For Indian Society Cine-Maa And Pa: How Bollywood Embraced The Adoption Genre