I’ve been grated down to just about zero faith in our justice system for rape survivors. I often hear people demand survivors to report/press charges to handle their sexual assault; these people want to believe that justice will be served if only victims would just go through the system. But the system doesn’t work. It does. Not. Work.

Our system repeatedly, consistently, faithfully protects predators and abusers. Very rarely is there justice. And in the grueling process of pressing charges, we ask survivors to relive their trauma over and over - not just to a court of law, but to a court of public opinion. We ask survivors to undergo character assassination, victim blaming, moralizing, and to go up against people who care more about preserving wealth, status, and power – for months and sometimes years while the case is open. And after all that, they get nothing. Or worse, in Kesha’s case, a ruling that contractually binds you to your rapist for 6 more albums.

#FREEKESHA (petition here)