The recent death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard is yet another reminder that women are not safe. Many women right now, quite understandably, don’t feel safe and protected.
Our lives have been under constant threat throughout history, and too many women grow up with the fear of being murdered or sexually abused or both.
For years, women have been failed by the judicial system, where violence rooted in misogyny gets thrown back in our faces. In this process, women have been stereotypically degraded by being branded: revengeful, “crying out” rape or even silenced with a psychiatrist diagnosis, labeling their natural responses to trauma as hysteria or crazy.
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