Responding to Victim Blaming So You Don’t Have To: A PowerPoint I Made While Angry
(I’m primarily angry about reactions to AOC sharing her experiences of trauma, but also we do this all the time to anyone who talks about any kind of abuse, hence the PowerPoint) Victim blaming is an understandable impulse if you want to believe the world is Just and you are Safe, but it hurts survivors and holds society back from addressing the underlying causes of violence