alexandria ocasio-cortez – Survivors to Superheroes

More Thoughts from Survivors to Superheroes About AOC

Jenni Pantoja February 11, 2021 3 Comments

Earlier in the week, we shared our president’s thank you to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Today, we share the response from another member of our team, Jenn Pantoja. If you read these two responses, you will see how remarkably similar they are. While ordinarily, we wouldn’t publish two such similar articles, we thought it was important to show how deeply AOC’s courage has resonated with two...

A Thank You to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the President of Survivors to Superheroes

Julia Tortorello-Allen February 8, 2021 0 Comments

This week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly stated that she is a survivor of sexual violence while recounting her experience during the capitol riots in early January. As a survivor of color, seeing other powerful women publicly sharing their survivor status, and denying the societal shame that is placed on survivors is deeply empowering. Although being met with the reality that so many of us...