it’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month… and it crashes into us with the news of millions of views…

it's Sexual Assault Awareness Month... and it crashes into us with the news of millions of views of some type of online rape academy

it’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
and it crashes into us with the news of millions of
views of some type of “online rape academy,”
and at first, we feel rage. but then… we feel
not so surprised at all.

and it’s because we’ve already known too many
versions of this… and it feels common… and what
actually feels foreign is to even consider a world where
SA is just terrible and rare. and so i try to imagine it…
like what if we could have that world?

but then i feel more rage… because i don’t want to
just imagine it, i want it to be real. i want to live
in a world where the horrible things that we’ve
accepted as common could only
ever be terrible and rare.

– butterflies rising

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some ways i’m made of magic…

i'm passionate & creative... i'm a dancer & a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into both of those things

some ways i’m made of magic…

i’m passionate & creative… i’m a dancer &
a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into
both of those things.

i’m adventurous & spontaneous…
maybe sometimes a little bit reckless…
but i can also be really brave, and i also
dream really big.

i love being a good friend… i’m supportive
& loyal & can hold space for any version of
them. and i’m silly & fun & i’m up for
anything. and i love my friends sooo much
and so deeply… like soulmates.

…and i think all of those things make
me kind of magical

– butterflies rising

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the way we’ve just been conditioned our whole lives as girls & women…

the way we've just been conditioned our whole lives as girls & women

the way we’ve just been conditioned our whole lives as girls & women to just accept SA as an almost inevitable thing we’ll experience… it’s overwhelming to even see any consequences… like it feels foreign to even consider a world where SA is just terrible and rare… but imagine, what if we could have that world

– butterflies rising

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