Alexander Wang Sexual Assault Accuser Launches #UsToo Movement

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Owen Mooney, one of the male models who recently accused star fashion designer Alexander Wang of sexual assault, has launched the “#UsToo” movement to call attention to sexual misconduct in the fashion industry.

“The silence of the fashion industry and Hollywood in general is quite deafening,” Mooney wrote in an Instagram post. “In an era of #MeToo and the solidarity victims received from Hollywood, where is the same support for the victims of Wang?”  read more »

New Illinois Law Will Protect Sexual Abuse Survivors

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Survivors of sexual and domestic assault will receive an extra layer of protection with a new law that allows survivors of sexual assault and stalking to keep their home addresses confidential to reduce the risk that their attacker may locate them.

The measure enables people to list the Illinois attorney general’s office as their contact address in some circumstances through the address confidentiality program already established for domestic violence survivors. read more »