Lady Justice.

She’s a reminder of what the law is meant to stand for: fairness that isn’t biased, protection that doesn’t depend on power, and accountability that doesn’t disappear when it’s inconvenient.

Many survivors learn to brace themselves for harm or worst case outcomes when engaging with these systems—often because the statistics, and lived experience, give us reason to.

The release of the Epstein files isn’t justice achieved. 👩🏻‍⚖️It’s an unexpected and significant step toward transparency. Truth at this scale validates what victims, survivors, activists, and academics have long documented.

It’s also a stark reminder that justice isn’t automatic. It can be slow, painful, and even gruesome. It also only exists when people are willing to consistently demand and enforce it. Too often, that burden continues to fall on those the system claims to protect.

While attorneys and legal professionals exist to enforce rights within the system, justice only survives if everyday people carry it forward in everyday life.

Violence against women remains one of the most persistent and under addressed human rights crises globally. According to a new World Health Organization and UN report, an estimated 840 million women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lives, and there has been little measurable progress over the past two decades. (Source:

What people can and should do:

• Don’t interrupt truth.

Let people speak without demanding perfection, proof, or palatability.

• Don’t confuse silence with neutrality.

Avoiding harm to stay “objective” protects power, not people.

• Use the leverage you have.

Vote, document, report, support journalism and survivor-led organizations, and push institutions to follow their own rules.

• Care about enforcement, not just awareness.

Statements don’t change outcomes. Pressure, policy, and follow through do.

• Accept that progress won’t feel satisfying.

Justice is slow, incremental, and often incomplete and still worth insisting on.

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