Sexual violence & harassment can happen to anyone at any time anywhere, she began.

Ppl remain silent 4 many different very personal reasons.

Judgment, victim shaming/blaming, loss of job/$, fear of violence, retaliation.

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Addressing that view, Union recounted a painful experience to get to discredit it.

I got raped at work at a Payless shoe store, she tweeted.

TheBeing Mary Janeactress wrote the piece in response to the rape allegations against Nate Parker that had resurfaced.

Union was a costar in the breakout film he directed and starred in,The Birth of a Nation.