3. Survivors will create the path forward. In resisting violence, homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and capitalism, survivors of oppression have the power to generate the vision for all of us to follow. Survivors have right to decide how their safety will be protected within this group that includes an agreement that disclosures of responsibility for acts of sexual violence in both our internal structure and our external work.
We work to keep the voices of survivors of sexual violence, women of color, young people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people central.We are not waiting for leaderswe are each of us leaders and we are stepping up to the charge of building world without sexual violence.7. Real justice comes through healthy communities wherein members are accountable to one another and take one another seriouslynot through police and prisons.
We are Queer and Straight. We are young, old, and inbetween. We are sex workers, students and community members. We work to keep the voices of survivors of sexual violence, women of color, young people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people central.We are not waiting for leaderswe are each of us leaders and we are stepping up to the charge of building world without sexual violence.7. Real justice comes through healthy communities wherein members are accountable to one another and take one another seriouslynot through police and prisons.
We are People of Color, Multiracial, and White. Trotting him out to attack the Duke accusers humanity on national television, actually, flying him into Durham, North Carolina for him to attack Black people and say the things that these creeps fear they cannot. This man has nothing but contempt for the members of his own race and he has even less of that for Black women. We are sex workers, students and community members. We are nontrans and trans.
We come from throughout the Triangle area and have roots both within and outside of the United States. These injuries include psychological and emotional damages to survivors, to the survivors of all trauma, to the communities of which survivors are part, and fear and intimidation stemming from even the threat of violence. The legal system is illprepared to work for actual justice, and it will never be an institution that can promote healing. We believe justice can only come about when people are held accountable to the community, not just to the letter of the law.