I Don’t Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

I was raped on this day

Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

Trigger warning: rape

I have never been one to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. In America, it was adopted as a day solely dedicated to getting wasted. I never understood the appeal, especially as a teenager without a fake ID. Still, people in my life had countless parties where you were meant to dress in green and celebrate the act of being…