October 6, 2018
On October 6th, the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
This has been a terribly painful time in our country.
The last few weeks have exposed the barriers too many survivors face in reporting and being believed. In our work, we see how, too often, offenders evade responsibility for the harm they have done. This can be because survivors fear the cost of speaking up; and because, even when survivors are believed, their perpetrators will likely still not be held accountable. Sometimes this is because perpetrators use networks, power, and relationships to ensure that they will not suffer the consequences of their behavior.
The responsibility to support survivors, challenge unjust systems and hold abusers accountable falls on all of us.