My Story: by Olivia Cook

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…

Intersectionality in Our Community

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…

The Importance of Advocacy

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…

I Believe You.

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…