Suzette Jordan, whose spirited fight for dignity to rape survivors inspired lakhs of women, died of meningo-encephalitis on Friday.Her last Facebook cover photo had the message: “Maybe it’s not about the happy ending.Maybe it’s about the story.” She was 40.
Suzette was a fighter all her life, and never more so than in the last three years when she battled a hostile administration, social stigma, name-calling and relentless humiliation. Yet, she kept her dignity intact and refused to be addressed as the “Park Street rape victim”.
“Why would people identify me as the Park Street rape victim wherever I go? I am Suzette Jordan and I am not a rape victim. The stigma should be on the men who violated me,” Suzette had declared, while revealing her identity to the world. She lift ed her veil during a live TV debate, triggering a stampede in the media to interview her.
She asserted her identity as “a woman and a mother of two daughters”. “Why should I hide my identity? Why should I be ashamed of something that wasn’t my fault? I was subjected to brutality, I was raped. I am fighting and I will fight,” she had said.
Suzette was admitted to a nursing home last Friday after bouts of convulsion and fever. Her family shifted her to School of Tropical Medicine on Thursday morning. She died around 3 am on Friday.
Suzette was a fighter all her life, and never more so than in the last three years when she battled a hostile administration, social stigma, name-calling and relentless humiliation. Yet, she kept her dignity intact and refused to be addressed as the “Park Street rape victim”.
“Why would people identify me as the Park Street rape victim wherever I go? I am Suzette Jordan and I am not a rape victim. The stigma should be on the men who violated me,” Suzette had declared, while revealing her identity to the world. She lift ed her veil during a live TV debate, triggering a stampede in the media to interview her.
She asserted her identity as “a woman and a mother of two daughters”. “Why should I hide my identity? Why should I be ashamed of something that wasn’t my fault? I was subjected to brutality, I was raped. I am fighting and I will fight,” she had said.
Suzette was admitted to a nursing home last Friday after bouts of convulsion and fever. Her family shifted her to School of Tropical Medicine on Thursday morning. She died around 3 am on Friday.
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