It’s Always Been Your Body

What my mother taught me that the Supreme Court never will

Photo by Aiden Frazier on Unsplash

When I was about eight years old, my mother tucked me into bed one night and told me this story:

When she was about my age (at the time of the story), a man in her small Wisconsin town — a friend of her father’s — took her into the backroom of a local shop and touched her inappropriately. He…