This first one brings tears to my eyes, and I love that it's people who know survivors that are speaking out, sending positive messages to the survivors they know; messages which I believe are universal towards all survivors.
You're not just a victim. You're a survivor.
Some of my favourite messages for survivors:
"You could be running around naked and it doesn't mean you're asking to get sexually assaulted or raped. There's nothing that you can do to ask for it."
"There's nothing wrong with you." "And you're still a strong person regardless of that situation"
"No matter what that person did to you, they didn't take away your beauty as a person, as a woman."
"Don't find truth in the way you've been hurt because it's not. The truth is the way that you bounce back and how you recover from it."
"You're beautiful, and I love you, and I'm always here for you if you ever need me."
Just as inspiring as the first, this video asks many of the same people from the first video the question, 'What do you do on a daily basis to avoid rape, sexual assault, or harassment?' It's awesome.
I am tired of the silence.
I completely agree that "It should be a right to walk down the street and be safe; not something you have to actively work hard at."
It's like there's an epidemic in the midst of society but it's shoved under the rug, ignored, surrounded by a deafening silence. It's time to change that. I too, am tired of the silence.
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