Betsy Devos wants to roll back protections for survivors that exist in Title IX. We are not helpless, we do not need to sit back and let someone else provide her feedback. I am reaching out to Know Your IX and other groups for input on talking points, best avenues of providing feedback, etc. I encourage you to do the same, reach out to yo If you need help figuring out logistics, let us know. It's all the shit that broke us, that damaged us, that nearly killed us and destroyed us; that left us in pieces, ra It's all the shit that was said to us, words that stuck like crazy-glue: you're not enough, you're not pretty, you're not worthy, you're not special or good or smart enough, you are worthless.
How many of us remember five words that prevented us from following our dreams: you'll never amount to anything. To see these women and this movement portrayed this way, acknowledged for rapidly changing the landscape, is healing and powerful.
To the women who have kept quiet, we see you and we feel your pain. To the women who have spoken up, we thank you and know your scars are still healing. There is still hard work to be done, but we finally have a foothold, we finally are seeing action, we finally are seeing some progress. All people should be free from sexual violence. A freshman student was doing homework for her Criminal Justice class when she found Turner's photo in her textbook.
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