by Jake Offenhartz in News on Sep 28, 2018 1:18 pm fullscreen close On Thursday, as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s gut-wrenching testimony gave way to Brett Kavanaugh’s sniveling prevarications, two fed-up New York City students began taping homemade fliers onto columns in busy subway platforms. The posters, born from a trending hashtag responding to President Donald Trump’s recent victim-blaming, asked New Yorkers to share #WhyIDidntReport, either on paper or on Instagram. By Friday, hundreds of responses had flooded in, a physical and online manifestation of a city deeply horrified to learn or be reminded of how the country’s most powerful leaders feel about women. View this post on Instagram #Repost @davidmkrasner #whyididntreport #whyididntreportit #believewomen #believesurvivors #trustwomen #believevictims #metoo #metoomovement #sexualabuse #sexualassault #voiceup #speakup #trump #donaldtrump #america #us #usa #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #victim #timesup #bravewomen A post shared by Why I Didn’t Report (@whyididntreportit) on Sep 26, 2018 at 7:36am PDT I love you, NY. #whyididntreport pic.twitter.com/LJvJJLcBD7— Yana Kuchirko (@yanakuchirko) September 27, 2018 View this post on Instagram Why? This is the reason why I didn’t report it. #whyididntreport #whyididntreportit #metoo #metoomovement #sexualabuse #sexualassault #voiceup #speakup #trump #donaldtrump #america #us #usa #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #victim A post shared by Why I Didn’t Report (@whyididntreportit) on Sep 24, 2018 at 12:57pm PDT The paper protest is the work of School of Visual Arts students Ha Jung Song and Bowook Yoon, who came up with the idea as part a class assignment. They say they’ve placed over 1,000 flyers across the city this… [Read full story]
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