Hey, tumblr. Some of you may have seen these photos going around already over the last few days, and the outpouring of support and solidarity from the majority of you has been incredible. To the few people who seem skeptical or downright hostile, hi - I’m Emily.

I am the girl pictured here, after my now ex-boyfriend Christopher Young (“DJ Chaos”) also pictured here, beat the living fuck out of me this past Saturday morning. Some people expressed that my black eyes looked “too perfect” or unlike wounds characteristic of domestic violence…well you can see the fingerprints on my arm here as well. And the picture of the “Asian woman” who wasn’t even me? There’s another shot of my face the day after; my eyes and cheeks were so swollen, I was saying the exact same thing about myself…I looked like a chubby Asian girl, and people I know didn’t even recognize me. I’m wearing the same hoodie in that picture as I am in another photo that previously made the rounds around tumblr, in which the swelling had gone down a lot. Yes, this is me, and this is real.

My friends rallied around the task of getting the word out, because the person who did this to me is still walking around free. We have heard that he may be in Phoenix, AZ (we live in Tucson) so anyone in the area please keep an eye out for him. There is a felony warrant out for his arrest, and this man - if you want to call him that - not only needs to serve time for what he did to me, but need to get serious help for whatever mental and emotional problems drove him to doing this in the first place. I learned a little too late that he has previous domestic violence charges and I dont want him to do this to anyone else in the future. I’ll do my best to keep the interwebs up to date in the best way I can once he’s taken into custody.

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