There are many unpaid, hard-working advocates and activists within sexual violence advocacy circles. So much crucial work is done on local levels – unpaid and outside of normal working hours. […]
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#SAAPM: As a survivor with a public story, I’ve learned a few things since first breaking my silence in 2008: 1 – You don’t owe anyone your story. 2- You […]
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Veterans and service members who scream “POGUE!” at anyone they don’t like are basically the active duty equivalent of incels. Well, some of them actually are incels. Some of them […]
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“He must have been a giant #whore.” – 1/11/2013 Twitter comment about my rape by “Alice” The thing about that bit of victim-shaming is that I didn’t become promiscuous until after […]
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A demoralizing aspect of being a survivor in the media are trolls. This is a photo of me, taken less than a year after I was raped in 1990. When […]
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As soon as people learned that my rapist was a woman, they crawled out from under rocks to tell me that I “owed” my rapist compassion because she “must’ve been […]
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July 17, 2022 Dear Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Representative Don Beyer, As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to take a stance against the Journalism […]
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When I started doing advocacy work on female predators back in 2008, it was SOOOOOOOOOOOO RARE to see a woman’s sexual violence crimes described as rape in the media…or anywhere. […]
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R. Kelly will be sentenced soon enough. Get ready for all of the proud, low information clowns to come out of the woodwork with: “What about Harvey????” – He’s in […]
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Religious Pro-Tip: You are NOT being oppressed when: you are not allowed to force others to pray you are not allowed to make others be silent in order to make […]
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