For centuries, women who have stepped forward to reveal their experience of sexual assault have been routinely told they are lying or mistaken. More recently, the #MeToo movement has upended that flat assertion, as women around the world have provided tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts exposing the pain of volition taken away, the self-talk that feeds shame, the enduring effects of trauma, and especially, the fear of not being believed. Of being called a liar or incompetent.
Author: Silvia Yee
Nature, Nurture, and Assisted Reproduction: The Musings of a Comics Fan
Yui Yanagihara Has a Passion For Justice
When I was first approached about being Yui Yanagihara's supervisor during her international legal internship with DREDF, I felt that I had some sense of who she was even before she arrived. As a young woman traveling on her own halfway across the world to take on coursework and assignments in a second language, I was sure that she was resourceful, adventurous and determined.
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