The site and the community has improved my life so much, and I know I need to sustain it - I just need a little help. If you can become a patreon (even for £2 a month) I, and the community , would be endlessly grateful.

There’s no pressure, but if you are in the position to become a patron, please visit https://www.patreon.com/catrionalca.

Thank you endlessly to the lifelines of LCA that help to fund the continuation of this site every year. We wouldn’t be here without:

Warren Choy, Steph Holloway, Joy Sophonisba Hawkins, Lisa Preville

In 2018, I felt like I was stranded in an ocean, with only a (breaking) life raft and no rescue in site. I decided to create this platform to fill where I saw there was a dangerous hole. It is an area for people to share their own articles of advice, recommended coping mechanisms like music playlists or videos, and anything else that feel like it belongs here. After my therapy ended I needed a space to read about other people’s survival, to listen to and share music as a form of healing, and to find new binge-worthy but safe things to watch when I was feeling extra low. When I struggled to find such a space, I decided to make it myself. My hope is that the space will help people (or even 1 person) in their path to recovery and strength after sexual assault.

A year after the creation of this site, my podcast of the same nature came out with BBC Sounds. It’s called ‘After: Surviving Sexual Assault’ and can be found here as well as on all major podcast platforms.

Three years after the creation of this site, I published my first book The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture with Trapeze. You can buy it here.

The vision of LCA is for a kind world where survivors are given the respect and care that they need. We welcome everyone, but our politics is left-leaning and we are always pro-healthcare/pro-choice/pro-sex workers rights/anti-racist/anti-homophobic/anti-right-wing (basically anti- all the horrible mean things in the world).

Discrimination against any marginalized groups won’t be tolerated. We welcome all survivors, including trans survivors, disabled survivors, survivors of colour, working-class survivors and survivors who are sex workers.