Leda Hell — How A $9 Mill.+ Survivor Led Company Became More Traumatizing For Me Than Sexual Assault Itself - by Jae Ortiz
videos: - jae talks about their time at leda part 1 / part 2 / part 3 Leda Hell — How A $9 Mill.+ Survivor Led Company Became More Traumatizing For Me Than Sexual Assault Itself working at a company built for survivors by survivors™ caused me as much trauma as my sexual assaults did — if not more. i started working at Leda Health in May of 2020. i was staying with a friend in upstate New York since COVID-19’s spikey legs kicked me out of school. i had no money and nowhere to go. being the identities i held–queer, non-binary, Puerto Rican + Cuban, poor– i was one of the statistics Leda often posts about. at 16, i was sexually assaulted by mom’s boyfriend. it’s a Cuban thing, she said. and then again by my prom date, and again working an office job, and again by my freshman year situationship, and so on. i chose to leave home when my mom didn’t believe what happened to me. despite having nothing to my name and no power, i still chose m...