Often times survivors voices and stories are silenced, but this is not an accident. Keeping survivors stories unheard protects abusers and predators, along with discouraging other victims from speaking up. Silence is a weapon, one we can break, by encouraging others to know they are not alone and that what they are going through is valid.

Not only could a simple message help someone understand more of what they are going through, but it could save someone's life. Something as simple as a sentence can be the push someone needs to keep fighting, and to keep standing up for themselves. The people protecting a system of systemic silencing expect us to keep quiet, to not show the world how it needs to be changed, but we will fight.

We fight with our words, and with our stories.