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SILENCE BREAKERS

Why survivors still worry about speaking out

BY ELIANA DOCKTERMAN

Five years after ’s Silence Breakers cover story for the 2017 Person of the Year issue, survivors of sexual assault and harassment are still fighting to be heard. Spurred by #MeToo, which went viral that October, activists, politicians, and lawyers have pushed laws that would make covering up harassment

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