There are more than 60 million survivors in the United States.

We are coming together across sectors, communities, and generations to say: the time has come for justice, accountability, and healing.

We will not stop until the violence stops.

Watch our collective statement — then add your name.

With love, urgency & solidarity,
The Survivors Rising Initiators:
V (formerly Eve Ensler), V-Day and One Billion Rising
LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
Kimberlé Crenshaw, African American Policy Forum
Mily Treviño-Sauceda, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
Jacqui Lewis, Middle Church
Aisha Becker-Burrowes, FEMINIST
Ky Polanco, FEMINIST
Susan Celia Swan, V-Day and One Billion Rising

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Plan an event in your community on Saturday, September 26th. We are calling for a Survivors Rising Day. People across the country will come together in their own communities to disrupt injustice. Host an event. Organize your community. Rise together.

OUR COLLECTIVE STATEMENT

We, as women and gender-expansive people in the United States, are outraged by the absence of accountability for abusers. By the lack of care for survivors. By the disregard for their suffering, their waiting, and their truth.

We are coming together across sectors, communities, and generations to say: the time has come for justice, accountability, and healing.

In recent months, we have witnessed a devastating escalation of violence against women and gender-expansive people.

Domestic violence against Black women is surging.
The Rape Academy investigation exposed that men clicked over 62 million times, participating in the drugging and assault of women for online content.
Girls are being targeted with AI deepfake nudes.
We have watched the stalling of the Epstein files and the ongoing protection of perpetrators.
We witnessed Dolores Huerta share her painful experience of sexual assault.

Anti-abortion and anti-trans laws are putting more lives at risk every day.

What we are witnessing is not isolated.
It is systemic.
It is cultural.
And it is sanctioned by those in the highest offices in this country.

We name this moment for what it is: a moment of profound and deepening impunity.

A culture of rape does not exist in isolation. It is upheld by power, protected by silence, and reinforced by institutions. And when those in power model harm, excuse harm, or embody harm, they normalize violence against women and gender-expansive people.

We refuse that world.

The time has come for women — and for all people — to rise and say: no more.

We stand with the Epstein survivors.
We stand with survivors across this country still fighting for justice, for healing, for recognition, for accountability.
And we stand with survivors who remain silent, afraid of the risk of finally speaking out.

We rise for every survivor whose story was buried, dismissed, or denied.

We rise for the more than 60 million survivors in this country.

We will not stop until the violence stops.

SIGNED:
V (FORMERLY EVE ENSLER) – Playwright, author, and founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising | ROSANNA ARQUETTE – Actress and activist | TAÍNA ASILI – Singer, composer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. One Billion Rising US Coordinator | AISHA BECKER-BURROWS – Co-founder & Co-Executive Director, FEMINIST; social entrepreneur and impact strategist | LATOSHA BROWN – Co-founder, Black Voters Matter Fund; voting rights activist | MAHOGANY L. BROWNE – Poet, author, and activist; Executive Director of Bowery Poetry; inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Lincoln Center | CORI BUSH – Former U.S. Representative (MO-01); nurse and community activist | KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW – Law professor; co-founder of the African American Policy Forum; creator of intersectionality theory | PURVA PANDAY CULLMAN – Senior Programs Director, V-Day | PATTI GIGGANS – Executive Director, Peace Over Violence; founder of Denim Day | ASH-LEE WOODARD HENDERSON – First Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director at Highlander Research & Education Center; Movement for Black Lives leader | ANITA HILL – Law professor at Brandeis University; gender and racial justice advocate | MARIA HINOJOSA – Journalist; founder and CEO of Futuro Media Group | CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL – U.S. Representative (WA-07); Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus | ASHLEY JUDD – Actor and humanitarian; global ambassador for women’s rights | JACQUI LEWIS – Rev. Dr.; Senior Minister & Public Theologian, Middle Collegiate Church; author | PAT MITCHELL – Media executive; first female president of CNN Productions; TED Women co-founder | KY POLANCO – Co-founder & Head of Brand/Vision, FEMINIST; media entrepreneur and activist | TANYA SELVARATNAM – Author, filmmaker, and activist; co-founder of The Federation; author of Assume Nothing | MONICA SIMPSON – Executive Director, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective | ROSLYN SMITH – Beyond Incarceration Project Manager. for V-Day; criminal justice reform advocate | RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER – Journalist and author; No Visible Bruises (National Book Critics Circle Award winner) | SUSAN CELIA SWAN – Executive Director, V-Day and One Billion Rising | KAI CHENG THOM – Author, performance artist, and community healer; author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars | MILY TREVIÑO-SAUCEDA – Executive Director & Co-founder, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas

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