Day: October 23, 2020

It was a hot and sticky summer afternoon and I was in a room filled to the brim with my fellow incoming freshmen when the keynote speaker came to the front of the lecture hall.   “How do you stop sexual violence from happening?” the speaker asked. A few hands shot up.  “Carry keys with you when you’re walking at night.”  “Never let anyone else touch your drink at...

A few weeks ago, I was scrolling through Twitter and I stumbled upon a news article about a recent sexual assault case. I read the article and then, against my better judgement, immediately went to go look through the replies to the original tweet.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that nearly all the replies were full of empathy and compassion for the survivor, but there was one comment...