Introduction to #MeTooGirlPDX
Hello World,
I’d like to introduce myself.
I’m 27 years old and I am a #metoo survivor.
I was born in Washington D.C. and was raised in Portland, Oregon.
My mother, who had me at 17, moved us to Portland in hopes to escape the traumas she experienced in the DMV. She then married a man 15 years her senior, a man who I called dad for majority of my life.
I have yet to meet my actual father, who served 22 years in prison before his release and deportation to Jamaica. During his sentence he left myself and 17 other children scattered across the U.S. and Jamaica.