The appearances of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee involve not just the issue of belief, but also consciousness. When I was a 10th-grader in high school, I attended a party with fellow male classmates where I drank alcohol. To this day, I have a total lack of […]

Last week, in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford – who I believe was sexually assaulted – and other survivors, I told my own story outside Sen. Susan Collins’ office and again at a Portland vigil. Recounting my story was hard for me, and I shook as I told it, but I came out so […]

Let’s put aside the politics of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court for a moment. Let’s look not at what Dr. Christine Blasey Ford told the U.S. Senate last Thursday, but what she said to the hundreds of Americans who were sexually assaulted that day. She told them, “You, too, can survive; you, too, […]