{"id":3364,"date":"2018-04-29T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/04\/29\/ashley-judd-shares-letter-with-survivors-of-sexual-assault-healing-is-our-birthright\/"},"modified":"2018-04-29T16:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:40:59","slug":"ashley-judd-shares-letter-with-survivors-of-sexual-assault-healing-is-our-birthright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/04\/29\/ashley-judd-shares-letter-with-survivors-of-sexual-assault-healing-is-our-birthright\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Judd Shares Letter With Survivors of Sexual Assault: \u2018Healing Is Our Birthright\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/ashley-judd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ashley-judd\">Ashley Judd<\/a> shared a letter with sexual-assault survivors during a Time&#8217;s Up panel at the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday, declaring that &#8220;healing is our birthright&#8221; and &#8220;We can heal. That has been my experience.&#8221; Her discussion was with\u00a0#MeToo founder Tarana Burke.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/01\/ashley-judd-james-franco-sexual-harassment-1201917129\/\" title=\"Ashley Judd Calls James Franco\u2019s Response to Sexual Harassment Accusations \u2018Terrific\u2019\">Ashley Judd Calls James Franco\u2019s Response to Sexual Harassment Accusations \u2018Terrific\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;We may not know, admittedly, how to or even from what we need to heal. It may be the event itself or vivid or dull memories of it, and it is entirely plausible that we don\u2019t even remember the event,&#8221; Judd says. She was one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment last fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealing is our birthright,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt was not our birthright to be sexually harassed or assaulted or raped based on social constructs of gender, biology, sex, identity, orientation, ethnicity, race, ability, or any intersection thereof. It is our birthright to know in our bones that it wasn\u2019t our fault. We humans hurt each other and sometimes we hurt ourselves, but we can make decisions and take actions that free us.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/ashley-judd-speaking-out-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-1201904402\/\" title=\"How Ashley Judd Became the First Actress to Go Public Against Harvey Weinstein\">How Ashley Judd Became the First Actress to Go Public Against Harvey Weinstein<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is not fair. Let\u2019s be plain,\u201d Judd said. \u201cIt isn\u2019t right or fair that one out of four girls and one out of six boys will be sexually assaulted, by conservative estimates, by the age of 18 \u2014 amongst other catastrophic statistics. But, and this is everything, my friends, when we become aware of our pain and have some education about it, we become responsible for addressing our pain in effective and healthy ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not alone. I believe you, and it wasn\u2019t your fault,&#8221; she said at the end of her letter. \u201cThe facts do remain the facts, but we know our preciousness and our fierceness. Healing, damn it, is our birthright.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Judd shared a letter with sexual-assault survivors during a Time&#8217;s Up panel at the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday, declaring that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}