If you were alone in the woods and had to choose between encountering a man or a bear, which would you choose? As this question went viral online, many people were shocked by the answer that a large number of women gave. They said, Many people dismissed this answer as irrational or dramatic, but there […]
Read More Man VS. BearWhen I was seven, my next door neighbor accidentally pushed me over while we were out roller skating. Over my tears, my mom told me: “Forgive and forget” while putting bandaids on my scraped knees. At fourteen, someone stepped on my brand new Vans that I’d been excited to wear for weeks . When I […]
Read More Not All Healing Begins With ‘Forgive and Forget’I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten emails from campus police or the local police department of reported sexual assaults, and not until recently did I ever stop and think about how common situations like those are in the world that I live in; college. College is a world that is short-lived compared […]
Read More College…and rape.Last night, survivors and allies of sexual assault gathered at James Madison University to “take back the night.” Throughout the month of April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the annual event takes place in communities and campuses around the world. The goal is to draw awareness to the prevalence of sexual assault, de-stigmatize it, […]
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