The Cost Of Rape: Survivors Of Sexual Assault Are Paying Billions

$122,461. That’s enough to pay for a college degree, to buy a house (depending on where you live), and to travel the world and enjoy life for awhile. It’s also the average lifetime economic burden for a survivor of rape, according to a 2017 study by the...

One Woman’s Fight To Unite Both Parties For Sexual Assault Survivors

In times of anger, pain, violence, and sadness, I usually find myself leaning on a quote by Mr. Rogers, the iconic children’s show host: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find...

How Accusing A Powerful Man of Rape Drove A College Student To Suicide

Megan Rondini’s friends and family remember her as having an ironclad sense of right and wrong. Her childhood nickname was “Rules Rondini” because she was such a principled board game player. As an honors student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Megan...

5 Common Myths About Sexual Assault You Probably Believe

The most fortunate of us learned everything we know about sexual assault from two sources: Hollywood, and scandalous news stories that usually focus on the accused (since it usually takes a celebrity perpetrator to make headlines). Shockingly, they do not always paint...