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One Tweet Unleashes A Torrent Of Stories Of Sexual Assault : The Two-Way : NPR

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--Donald Trump talked about grabbing women's genitals. On Twitter, tens of thousands of women have told stories from the other side of sexual assault, sharing their stories with the hashtag #NotOkay, after writer Kelly Oxford shared the story of the first time she was sexually assaulted. On Friday evening she tweeted, "Women: tweet me your first assaults. they aren't just stats. I'll go first: Old man on city bus grabs my "p*ssy" and smiles at me, I'm 12." By Monday afternoon, nearly 27 million people had responded or visited her Twitter page.

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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