About
A Campaign to Openly and Directly Address Rape
Within Our Communities
This is a campaign to break the silence around rape and sexually dangerous/predatory behaviours, and to use community-pressure, people-power and survivor-direction to openly and directly address rape. It is also a public service campaign to educate around the realities of rape, sexual assault, and sexually transmitted infections for the safety and health of women who are exposed to them.
Why?
Because as women we’re tired of putting up with rape.
And because as survivors we cannot rely on the state system to support us.
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Because too many of us are sexually assaulted or raped in our lifetimes.
Because only a small percentage of survivors report the rapes.
Because very few of those reports are taken seriously.
Because survivors are rarely encouraged or supported in speaking out publicly.
Because we’re sick and tired of being raped, and because we refuse to remain silent any longer.
Because rape hides in silence.
And finally because as survivors and allies we’re done asking for perpetrators to act with respect for our bodies, our safety, our health and our communities. We’re done having no power over these situations. We’re done being treated with disrespect and dishonesty. We’re done with all that. And we’re taking this into our own hands.
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Please distribute to your networks.
Please help to make this public.
Please help to BREAK THE SILENCE.
CONSENT IS CRUCIAL. RAPE IS REAL. BREAK THE SILENCE.
Print posters, fliers, notices, and distribute as you please.
RAPE IS REAL 
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I think this blog is fantastic, I myself a survivor of a very nasty rape have started a blog regarding my experience as a rape survivor. Moving from being the victim to the survivor, my police case is still ongoing so I update what in going through regularly in the hope I can help others. Feel free to follow my blog it’s sallyconnolly1307 keep up the good work! Xx
Thanks so much for your bravery. I know what you’re doing is helping people like me and people all over the world who are affected by rape culture.
It is so sickening, but unsurprising to me that he’s a queer anarchist, just because the left (which I am a part of) is full of similar manipulative rapists and those who support them.
My comment is a question. I am 28 yrs old, female, and when I was 18 I had a very jealous-controlling-violent boyfriend. He was 19. It was not so much that he would hit me (although twice or more we engaged in actual physical fighting) as that he would give me the “look”, a look that would petrify me and make me know that whatever i did/said/… was wrong and that I’d pay for it. Everything i did was wrong; even the way i did the dishes, they way i did the laundry, my opinions. He made me believe that he was smarter than me in every way. He had also grabbed by the neck once and slapped me twice in arguments. We never had a healthy sexual relationship. I was inexperienced, he was my first, and I had not reached orgasm for a year we’ve been together. We would always have sex at night after going to bed. He used to push me, exactly like this ben guy, for anal sex, and when I gave in, like Molly planned to do on bens birthday, he penetrated me anally and carried on until he ejaculated, despite my tears, screamings and crying. Like Molly I didnot even try to stop him and that’s why I never classified it as date rape in my mind and never told anyone, until now. I wanna know if this could be considered as rape. I honestly do not have much recollection of my actions during or after. I must have pretended that everything is ok. But every now and then I think about it and wonder: how can have sex and ejaculate while perpetrating anally someone who is crying and begging to stop and is clearly in shock and pain?
I would love if you started a section of this blog that was for others to share their stories/names and it could become a whole network around the world.
It’s true. It happened to me, too. I write about it on my blog. It’s an evil I have to expel. I refuse to keep their secrets anymore. Thank you for your blog and your bravery.
I support you, you’re so brave and strong keep up the good work. Your words moved me
Thank you.
I support you for your bravery
I just read this online: http://bodkins.tumblr.com/post/27542081566/more-information-about-benjamin-mccullugh-dennis and wanted to come here and let you know I fully support you and your actions and have been spreading the word. Thankyou for being so brave, I wish I was strong enough to do this to the man who raped me. Love <3
Thank you for being so brave.
This must be difficult, scary and unimaginably stressful. I’m sorry you haven’t been supported in ways that you need, as much as you need.
I don’t know you but I’m willing to poster. Xx Bettie
Dear Molly,
I wish you swift healing, deep protection, and community. I’ll be thinking about you.
I just want to say I support you and wish you all the best.
It’s truly horrifying that you had to experience that and you have all my love and sympathy.
You are amazingly brave for speaking out and trying to help to protect other women who come into contact with this scum of the earth.
dear molly, i hope you are being heard in your immediate community, you have my faith and support and i welcome your voicing this story in the wider australian punk and anarchist circles, folks cannot go on being given the benefit of doubt for their aggressive behaviour (and passive avoidance of being told they’ve done something wrong and how to right it) without having any consequences..
best of luck and love
I support your bravery Molly !
and I love you for what you are doing this is a very hard thing to speak of but you have managed to openly say it.
Dear Molly & Fight Rape! Collective,
First, thank you for breaking the silence on rape. I’ve talked about it with a lot of feminists from Sydney and Melbourne- We are listening and value the work you’re doing, and want to help.
I’d like to write about the campaign for the student paper at the University of Sydney, Honi Soit. I’d really appreciate your input, if we could get in contact – my email is bodhi.connor@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Bodhi
Molly, thank you for sharing your story. I support you and hope to spread your message.
This monster cannot be allowed to walk freely.
I support you. Thank you so much for coming forward to expose this scum. I wish you all the strength and support in the world. <333
thank you for posting your story. i support you.
I support you, and thank you for being brave and telling your story.
I support you, and I think you’re incredibly brave for coming out with this story.
i just wanted to say that i support you, and thank you for telling your story. ♥
Keep on keeping on and the worthwhile people in the community will find themselves and the rest can go fk themselves.
Hi, I just want to leave a message of support for you. This situation is really triggering for me and I feel like absolute shit for trying to avoid it when I know how important it is, and that you need the support of your community, so I am here to say that I am a member of your community, and that I don’t know you but know Ben and had previously thought of him as a decent and kind person but what I have read of your experience has shocked me and I am grateful to you for sharing your experience. Thank you.
I support you! i think your treatment at the hands of the community at large is absolutely reprehensible and I hope that you are able to get justice for what was done to you, you deserve it!!!
It makes me so relived that people are aware of a growing problem in this world.
Wonderful
I have someone I would like to post up myself. What do you think of people posting names and pictures of rapists online?
Hey, this is my project about the rights of survivors or rape and about stopping being ashamed of assault but proud we survived. Please check it out and I hope it’s of some goodness to you.
Peace,
-KaylaJo O’Lone-Hahn
http://survivorsolidarity.wordpress.com/
I support you <3
Dear Individuals & Communities,
This is a communique from the FIGHT RAPE collective. We’re aware of Benjamin McCullagh-Dennis’ actions of rape and of refusal to allow full-disclosure of this and of being a carrier for HPV. We’re aware that he is currently engaging in an accountability process, but that he’s continuing to hold power over this situation by maintaining silence around his actions.
This is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. As survivors of rape, we are committed to speaking up, speaking out and publicly breaking the silence around rape. We will not allow perpetrators to hide from their actions or to choose their own level of engagement with processes to address them. We stand behind the survivor’s right for empowerment and agency over this process, and we have included Ben in our BREAKING THE SILENCE campaign. We understand that the survivor is still requesting an accountability process be ongoing, and we will respect her decisions around that. We also understand that the survivor is calling for broader support in helping to break the silence around Ben’s actions.
At the moment the survivor has requested that all community spaces, radical organisations, safer spaces and concerned community members be alerted of Ben’s actions and ban him from your space/event/community until he has completed his accountability process for the rape he perpetrated. We understand this to be a more-than-reasonable response to rape within our communities, and we will support the survivor’s requests. Please be aware that despite Ben’s verbal statements of commitment to being held accountable for his actions, he has continued to use dishonesty to break agreements and hold power over this situation. If he contacts you or if his friends or supporters write on his behalf, please respect the survivor by not taking his word and by checking in directly with the survivor if you have questions about where he’s at in his accountability process.
We know that too often rapists are defended while survivors are doubted. That dynamic has got to change! Survivors have nothing to gain from speaking out about rape except for breaking the silence in a culture that supports it. We will not stand behind a rape-culture. We will believe and defend the survivor. We will doubt the words of the perpetrator as someone who has proved himself to be untrustworthy in his actions of rape and his actions of continued silence. It’s time to turn the tables on this rape-culture dynamic. It’s time to FIGHT BACK.
FIGHT RAPE! COLLECTIVE,
We are all survivors and we are sick and tired of playing nice.
Hear hear!!!!
Thanks for keeping it real and being so brave and badass! Thanks for refusing to stay silent any longer.
F’kn sick of rape and silence. So glad this exists! I saw the posters and got chills. Thanks for breaking the silence.
hi, i saw the post about the posters on tumblr. it said that pretty soon after they were put up somebody tore them down. i’m not sure how they were put up originally but if you use wheatpaste it’s a lot harder to remove the poster. there are recipes online and it’s easy to make. just thought this might be a good tip because people deserve to know about that evil fucker.