Wagatwe Wanjuki has packed a lot of activism into a few short years. The feminist and antirape activist has worked with Know Your IX, a group fighting for sexual-assault survivor rights on campus, has appeared in the documentary “The Hunting Ground” and is now the co-founder of Survivors Eradicating Rape Culture. Wanjuki has started a new online campaign, called the Just Say Sorry campaign, to empower survivors and draw attention to university failures to address the needs of sexual-assault survivors. (The Twitter hande is #JustSaySorry.) The campaign is simple but perfectly pitched to go viral: Survivors are taking college mementos, like T-shirts and banners, posting videos online of their burning of these things. The survivors say they want their universities to apologize for mishandling their cases and will continue the burnings until then.

August 22, 2016 ・ From Salon.com