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In episode 44, Olivia Pepper spoke on the heavy gifts that survivors receive throughout the "after". It made me look back on the first year of the podcast including my previous thoughts on believing all survivors — episodes 1 and 2 of Initiated Survivor, "Why I Believe All Survivors" and "We Believe All Survivors". In these early episodes, the strategies I spoke about were primarily on an individual level. But when believing all survivors takes the dismantling of far-reaching systemic injustices, what can we as individuals do? Listen to the full episode to find out.

Topics/Triggers:

• Rest & The future of this podcast
• The realities of trauma recovery
• Reclaiming our power and community
• The myth of false reports
• The status quo of misogyny
• How rape culture responds to allegations of sexual assault
• The pathologizing of survivors
• White female privilege
• Why some believe sexual assault is an "anomaly"
• The trauma of reporting to a carceral state

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