Have you ever witnessed cruelty and thought to yourself I don’t belong here? I don’t belong in a world where humans can do this to one another. I must have been placed on the wrong planet because a world in which these terrible things can happen is not for me. My soul can’t handle it…
Tonight we gather on the shore of an expansive ocean. The waves lap up in slow rhythm while we remember our fighters, who now live in peace. Now is the time to remember and to celebrate the joy and courage taught to us, a million lessons to never be forgotten. You see, sometimes life is…
Confusion, humiliation, and physical pain are what I felt as I came to on a strange, foreign basement floor. Confusion regarding the fact that my underwear was missing from underneath my short denim skirt, pain was radiating in my vagina like nothing I had ever felt before, and the humiliation of the fact I had…
On the front of the news articles about the sentencing, there are pictures of Weinstein hunched in defeat. The pictures of his accusers are the polar opposite; standing tall, radiating power and confidence. This is the narrative that Weinstein’s sentencing has written for the future. Regardless of how powerful they may seem, sexual abusers will…
It is important to take the time to address the ways in which the anti-Blackness in our society perpetuates sexual violence and the silencing of survivors’ voices. Intersectionality plays a big role in most of our lives. In order for there to be change, there must be more than an acknowledgement of intersectionality, and work…
Throughout high school, I was on a committee to plan a consent conference sponsored by SafeBAE. if you asked me two years ago, I would have never known how important sexual assault awareness would become to me, especially through SafeBAE. It wasn’t until my first semester of college when I realized how crucial advocacy and…
This is a little something that I wrote for Change The Talk. It was part of my senior project chronicling my time with Change The Talk (a program now operated under SafeBAE). I would like to give a trigger warning to survivors, as the nature of this writing could be triggering in bringing up pre-existing…
