Bianca Rosen is a writer and anti-rape activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes about sexual violence and advocates for sexual violence policy that is survivor-centered. To learn more about her work, you can go to her website or find her on Twitter and Instagram.
While there are a number of risk factors for eating disorders, including our culture’s obsession with thinness, one factor is talked about less often and that is sexual violence.
Individual accountability matters, but sexual violence is also a community and cultural issue. To end rape culture, we need to seek out new models for justice that go beyond the state.