That has been my experience, she began during a conversation with #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke.
We may not know, admittedly, how to or even from what we need to heal.
I was wearing a green-and-gold cheerleader uniform, my mother tells me.
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It was in a local store and I have no memory of that crime.
Healing is our birthright, she declared.
It is our birthright to know in our bones that it wasnt our fault.
(Weinstein hasdeniedany instance of non-consensual sex.)
This is not fair.
Lets be plain, Judd said.
What happened to us will always have been wrong, sexist, and criminal.
Yet we are fundamentally and ultimately responsible, respond-able to our own lives, she continued.
Judd concluded her letter by telling survivors, You are not alone.
I believe you, and it wasnt your fault.
The facts do remain the facts, she said, but we know our preciousness and our fierceness.
Healing, damn it, is our birthright.
With reporting by Joey Nolfi.
