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What ‘Game of Thrones’ Gets Wrong About Sansa Stark and Abuse

LITTLE BIRD

Sansa Stark has been able to thrive, to govern, to strategize, and to make decisions independent of men’s counsel in spite of her history of abuse, not because of it.

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Editor’s Note: This piece contains a survivor’s account of rape and touches on abuse and trauma.

If you ask survivors what has made them strong, you can be sure most won’t credit the harms they suffered or the assailants who harmed them.

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