I do see myself as a survivor. When talking about these kinds of things, I feel like there's like, a somewhat negative connotation when it comes to the term survivor…it kind of ties in with like the victim blaming, honestly.

Just because I'm young, it doesn't excuse the fact that I went through a very traumatic and rough time.

Being Hispanic too, like, there's also just a very big, um, like the stigma is already so large with, you know, male survivors of intimate partner violence, but then it comes to, uh, people of color, men of color…

It has been so up and down since leaving. Some days I feel so whole and so appreciative of everything and I love the way life is going, but other days I just feel this overwhelming weight of grief and sadness and anger and frustration, and I just- I just cry. I just cry because I, I have no idea where to put, where to put these feelings,

I speak as someone who wants to make a difference among my community at college as a person of color and as someone who is also part of the LGBT community. I want to give others a voice…