I know that I said I was taking a break from solo episodes due to burnout, but after all that is happening on the news, I needed to share my thoughts with all of you. If you're like me and you're struggling with the public response to a very public trial involving domestic violence, sexual assault, and defamation, I want you to know that you are not alone. Whenever a survivor is attacked, every single one of us is affected. So in this bonus episode I'm sitting down to talk about how the public backlash to this trial is a perpetuation of rape culture — and what we can do to continue to support our fellow survivors despite it all.

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