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.