I missed the story of Rebecca Cheptegei in the news. So terrible, and something I do not want to see, but I do want to know because to not know is to collude with a world that pretends that shit like this doesn’t happen.
Thank you for singing the song of Rebecca so painfully eloquently.
I really LOVE this. I wept when read the story finger death in CNN. She will hold a place in my heart as long as it beats. One really small detail. She was living and training in Kenya at the time of her murder.
CRIP DYKE: What an awful story, but how beautifully and dramatically told! What a terrible tragedy, what a tale of triumph, what a brutal tale of madness...... I shake in anger and tears, I stumble in shock! How painful.
I missed the story of Rebecca Cheptegei in the news. So terrible, and something I do not want to see, but I do want to know because to not know is to collude with a world that pretends that shit like this doesn’t happen.
Thank you for singing the song of Rebecca so painfully eloquently.
No matter how far you can run, you can't escape the violence of men. I hate it here. Thank you for this beautiful rage sob.
Oh, honey.
Your words were both beautiful and horrifying at the same time. I have no words, only tears.
Absolutely brilliant writing CD.
The prose was so beautiful, and the pain so real. I wish for the day that this would stop happening.
This is such a tragic story and so incredibly written. I don’t know why it isn’t getting more engagement.
We'll just cross our fingers that more people share it the way you did and eventually it spreads her story farther.
I shared to Facebook as well which I know doesn’t play nice with Substack but I have way more followers there.
I really LOVE this. I wept when read the story finger death in CNN. She will hold a place in my heart as long as it beats. One really small detail. She was living and training in Kenya at the time of her murder.
Thank you so much, for everything, including the correction. I clearly misunderstood the account I read on that point.
A powerful essay. Beautiful and tragic. Thank you for honoring her.
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Why do men hate us so much???
Thank you.
This story hit hard in the Bongo household, with Mrs Bongo being Kenyan and a survivor of domestic abuse from her first husband, back in Nairobi.
My origin story is fighting domestic and sexual violence. Tell her I have her back, always.
Beautifully written elegy for a woman whose life was too short.
CRIP DYKE: What an awful story, but how beautifully and dramatically told! What a terrible tragedy, what a tale of triumph, what a brutal tale of madness...... I shake in anger and tears, I stumble in shock! How painful.