Ashley Judd shared a letter with sexual-assault survivors during a Time’s Up panel at the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday, declaring that “healing is our birthright” and “We can heal.
That has been my experience.” Her discussion was with #MeToo founder Tarana Burke.“We may not know, admittedly, how to or even from what we need to heal.
It may be the event itself or vivid or dull memories of it, and it is entirely plausible that we don’t even remember the event,” Judd says.
She was one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment last fall.“Healing is our birthright,” she continued.
“It was not our birthright to be sexually harassed or assaulted or raped based on social constructs of gender, biology, sex, identity, orientation, ethnicity, race, ability, or any intersection thereof.
It is our birthright to know in our bones that it wasn’t our fault.
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