You do not owe your abuser your silence.

We don’t talk enough about how Amber Heard had a defamation lawyer critique her WaPo op-ed before publication & made changes to it according to the advice of said lawyer only to have seven average members of society decide her objectively true statements were defamatory.

Just a reminder—in the wake of the Conor McGregor court decision—you’re still a survivor or victim of DV/IPV/SA/r*pe even if your abuser/r*pist has never been convicted in criminal court. If they’ve never been tried criminally or civically, you’re still a survivor/victim.

Normalize victims taking their abusers to civil court and getting monetary compensation from them.