#MeToo

Me too, #MeToo, god, all of us.
To all the people who have shared their stories, I see you and I believe you and I love you.
I hesitated to share this, because I’m tired of the onus being on the survivors to prove their humanity or justify pain. I don’t want this to end up being a one-off hashtag. I don’t want to appeal to anyone in positions of power to believe us because they already know and don’t care, and that’s a lot of why I’m angry.
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But I know how much it can help to have someone believe you, and to hear that someone else has gone through this. It helps me. If I can help anyone, I offer it gladly. It is possible to hold immense anger and love at the same time, which I know you know.
And to anyone who’s experienced sexual assault or abuse and chooses not to post about it, I believe you and I love you, too.
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• photo by me, dead #ghostpipe in the woods