[quote_center]I have spent years learning how to be a survivor and what I have learned is this: either we all survive together, or none of us do. I want us to face this moment — confront it, wrestle with it, grow from it. I want us to survive. All of us.[/quote_center]
By Sojourners
I knew it was coming. There was little doubt that the topic of sexual assault would come up, given the recent allegations against Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton’s own history. I had prepared myself — braced myself — but when the moderator brought it up, I still felt a shiver run through me. I couldn’t help it. I never can.
“I think they want either fame, or her campaign did it.”
This was Trump’s explanation for why nine women, whom he claims to have never met, would accuse him of sexual assault when he was asked about it in last night’s final presidential debate.
This is the year of Brock Turner, of Baylor University, of Nate Parker. This is the year that one of our presidential candidates — having been recorded making visceral, bragging reference to sexual assault — brushes it off as “locker room talk” during a nationally televised presidential debate. This is the year that everyone is realizing what women like me have known for a long time: Sexual violence isn’t an aberration — it’s the culture we live in. It’s the air we breathe.
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