Last night, video footage emerged of Donald Trump making derogatory sexual comments about women emerged.
The footage, purportedly from 2005, was shared on The Washington Post, and you can see it here.
In response, Canadian author Kelly Oxford, instigated a Twitter thread where women shared accounts of the first time they experienced sexual assault.
There was a huge response and you can see the thread in full here.
Women: tweet me your first assaults. they aren’t just stats. I’ll go first:
Old man on city bus grabs my “pussy” and smiles at me, I’m 12.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) October 7, 2016
.@kellyoxford I was 11. An older boy walked me home, turned around w/ his dick out. I just realized: I have no memory of what happened next.
— Emily Lindin (@EmilyLindin) October 8, 2016
@EmilyLindin Looking at FB and Twitter it seems like a lot of people have been triggered and I am just so sad for all of us.
— Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) October 8, 2016
@kellyoxford neighbor’s dad comes by when mom is out of town to “check on me.” Tells me I’m very mature. I’m 15. Tries to kiss me; I scream.
— Hexica ? Zollman (@jayzombie) October 8, 2016
@kellyoxford Age 13, crowd-surfed at a music festival. Ended up with many much older men’s hands down my pants and up my shirt.
— Emma Gray (@emmaladyrose) October 8, 2016
@kellyoxford Saddest thing: it took me a bit to consider what was my “first” assault. Had to list them out.
— Kaitlin Kelly (@caitidh) October 7, 2016
3 hours ago I asked women to tweet me about their sexual assault & rape. 3 hours later, new women sharing- every second #notokay
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) October 8, 2016
My 5th assault: age 15, at hospital for anxiety & heart palpitations. shirt is off for ekg, 2 Drs, not my Drs, stop & stare. 1 winks at me.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) October 8, 2016
If you have not looked at my time line, please do. I’ve had a million women describe their assaults tonight. A million. This is not nothing.
— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) October 8, 2016
