The Ghomeshi verdict: exposing the political grit sexual assault deserves

The National Observer
Co-published by rabble: Take the trauma of sexual violence out of private rooms and into the streets. March 29, 2016.

​“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”

​—Judith Herman, M.D, Clinical Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

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