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is a grassroots compilation of women's experiences of sexual assault. It is a project made up of women giving voice to a problem society silences: that of sexual assault as it occurs in our everyday lives. This sexual assault is not the sexual assault of Law and Order SVU. It is not stranger-in-a-dark-ally-rape. What is it? Ignored. Silenced. Dismissed. What is the recourse for the woman harassed on the street? Or the high school girl felt up by her boyfriend when she says no? Or the one whose friend doesn't stop his advances even when she keeps turning away? There isn't one-- yet. And so by the time we hit high school we've learned that whatever this experience is, it must not be a big deal. It must just be a part of growing up a girl.

This is what we are fighting through . We submit our stories of anything that happened when someone acted upon our bodies without consideration for what we wanted. We submit our stories, whether they're one line, one page or one dozen pages. We submit our experiences from childhood through adolescence through adulthood. We submit our stories because these experiences have been ignored when they should have been heard. We submit out stories to defy what we have been taught: that this is not a big deal. We submit our stories because together we can redefine sexual assault, not as it is convenient for those who perpetrate it but to reflect and validate what happens to us and what we decide is wrong.

Read more about the project here. Submissions are accepted through this website. To learn about submitting your story, click here.