Today I weep. I weep for an amazing woman, Daisy Coleman, who lost her life to rape, abuse and trauma. I weep for the thousands every year who meet the same fate without ever being recognized or seen as the brave souls they are.
I am heartbroken for the lives and dreams that are stolen and killed by sexual violence. I rage at the societal acceptance of the sexual abuse and rape of so many by demonizing, ignoring, abusing and blaming victims for their own destruction, life-long trauma and their common trauma responses.
The utter disdain, the invalidation of them, that is supported and encouraged in our culture. The “get over it already” and “if you didn’t report it, it must not have been so bad” or the “it wasn’t really rape” and “ you put
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