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Her name is known to few, but her case made headlines for years in Montreal.

In late 2011, an 18-year-old Concordia University student accused three McGill University football players of sexually assaulting her after she and a friend were invited to their apartment.

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During the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, I impulsively and angrily composed a tweet with the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported.

I tweeted that I had been raped and never reported it. I tweeted about sexual abuse at the hands of my grandfather and how the police didn’t believe me.

Suddenly and ironically, Ghomeshi and his narcissistic ways were drowned out by a tsunami of rape victims’ voices from around the globe.

Thousands, if not millions, of women — and some men — used the hashtag to compress years of pain and shame into a short, powerful statement. There was no need — or space — to go into the gory details or name names. It was enough, it seemed, to just name the crime.