TW: r*pe

Coming out about being assaulted/harassed/r*ped is quite literally the most mortifying and life impacting thing for any survivor to do. Imagine putting yourself in the public eye and your trauma dissected with a hyperfocus on your sexual being 1/

You instantly become a victim to your experience. Being known as survivor means you are known through your suffering. You become "that person" that "X scandal" was about, stripped of a life, of personhood, dimension, reduced to a name haphazardly stuck in a Wikipedia article 2/

People look at you and only think about how you were violated. They look at you strange if and when you move on, like it& #39;s ok for you to think past some life shaking violence, yet if you don& #39;t, you poison yourself dwelling on it. You are not a person anymore, 3/

you are the catalyst to someone else& #39;s downfall. Whether people think the downfall was deserved or not, you no longer have a history of your own, or agency over your narrative. it is so wrong to ask survivors to reveal themselves against their own will. 4/

It& #39;s more than just putting them in the danger, or under the microscope of public scrutiny, it& #39;s asking them to exchange the semantic of their own name. 5/