“Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You…”Tagged: Sex, Rape, Rape Culture, Sexual Assault, Misogyny
“The only thing I’m committed to right now is bettering myself.”Tagged: Dating, Self love, Self Improvement, Alone
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.”Tagged: strength, Girl Power, Self love, Self Worth
“When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.”Tagged: Past, Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Life
“Telling me I’m not allowed to be sad because there are other people out there who have it worse is like telling me I can’t be happy because other people have it better.”Tagged: Sadness, Happiness, Self love
“Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse. It eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better.”Tagged: Suicide Prevention
“Dogs are for people who need to be worshipped as gods. Cats are for people who are strong enough to put up with gods standing on their chests at 5:00 AM and demanding a sacrifice.”Tagged: LOL, Cat, dog
“We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of…”Tagged: Brexit, Ignorance, Democracy, Politics
“It was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded and it is they who will suffer most in the short term from the dearth of jobs and investment. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.”Tagged: Brexit, Working Class, Social Class
“Campus drinking culture. That’s what we’re speaking out against? You think that’s what I’ve spent the past year fighting for? Not awareness about campus sexual assault, or rape, or learning to recognize consent. Campus drinking culture. Down with Jack Daniels. Down with Skyy Vodka. If you want talk…”Tagged: Stanford Victim, Dan Turner
“Someone who cannot take full accountability for his actions does not deserve a mitigating sentence.”Tagged: Stanford Victim, Dan Turner
“This is not a story of another drunk college hookup with poor decision making. Assault is not an accident.”Tagged: Rape, Sexual Assault, Victim's Letter, Standing Up, Female Rights
“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for…”Tagged: Rape, Sexual Assault, Victim's Letter, Standing Up, Female Rights
“It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of 'promiscuity'. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”Tagged: Rape, Sexual Assault, Victim's Letter, Standing Up, Female Rights
“Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time…”Tagged: Rape, Sexual Assault, Victim's Letter, Standing Up, Female Rights
“…to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there…”Tagged: Brock Turner, Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault
“…I want to say thank you. To everyone from the intern who made me oatmeal when I woke up at the hospital that morning, to the deputy who waited beside me, to the nurses who calmed me, to the detective who listened to me and never judged me, to my advocates who stood unwaveringly beside me, to my…”Tagged: Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault, Brock Turner
“The probation officer factored in that the defendant is youthful and has no prior convictions. In my opinion, he is old enough to know what he did was wrong. When you are eighteen in this country you can go to war. When you are nineteen, you are old enough to pay the consequences for attempting to…”Tagged: Brock Turner, Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault
“Your life is not over, you have decades of years ahead to rewrite your story. The world is huge, it is so much bigger than Palo Alto and Stanford, and you will make a space for yourself in it where you can be useful and happy. Right now your name is tainted, so I challenge you to make a new name for…”Tagged: Brock Turner, Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault
“I want to say this. All the crying, the hurting you have imposed on me, I can take it. But when I see my younger sister hurting, when she is unable to keep up in school, when she is deprived of joy, when she is not sleeping, when she is crying so hard on the phone she is barely breathing, telling me…”Tagged: Brock Turner, Stanford Victim, Sexual Assault