Reflections on High School Students’ Protest against Sexual Violence: A Teacher and Survivor’s Perspective

I am a twenty-four–year–old special education teacher at a charter high school in Boston, Massachusetts. This piece was written about my first year as a teacher in a live school setting due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In college I had been active in protests and student-led discussions about social issues, and I have always been open to hearing people’s stories about gendered violence. I was...