Kate

@heyitsurjane for real

artists have a choice and they know exactly what they're stepping into. if ayaw nila, fans are the ones that need to be mature enough to support that artists in and out of their LT basically together and individually.

In her final semester at Harvard, Amanda Nguyen was raped. She did everything survivors are told to do. Then she discovered that the physical evidence collected from her own body would be destroyed in 6 months — unless she filed paperwork to stop it. And then filed it again. Every 6 months. Forever. She was 22 years old. She decided to change federal law instead. 🌟 Amanda had interned at NASA. She had big plans. The kind of future that takes years of hard work to build was finally within reach. Then everything shattered. She went to the hospital. She reported the assault to police. She endured the forensic exam. She made the careful decision to file her rape kit anonymously — worried that an open case could affect security clearance applications for her dream careers. That's when the system revealed how broken it truly was. Because she was anonymous, Massachusetts law gave her only 6 months before her rape kit — physical evidence collected from her own body — would be permanently destroyed. Not the 15 years the state allowed for pressing charges. Six months. No official process to extend it. No clear instructions. No one to guide her. She had to figure it out herself, every 6 months, forcing herself to relive the worst experience of her life just to preserve her right to eventually seek justice. She started researching rape kit laws in all 50 states. What she found was staggering. Some states kept kits for years. Others destroyed them in as little as 30 days. Some states charged survivors for the cost of their own kit collection. Others never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. No consistency. No standard. *"Justice should not depend on geography,"* she said. But it did. In November 2014, Amanda founded Rise — a nonprofit dedicated to changing that reality. Everyone who worked with Rise was a volunteer. They fundraised through crowdfunding. Their goal was rewriting federal law. She met with lawmakers across Washington. Staffers told her it wasn't a priority. Some questioned her story. She kept going. She learned that the most powerful thing she could do was stop being abstract — to walk into a room, look a senator in the eyes, and say: *this happened to me. I am sitting in front of you.* Together with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, she drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act — proposing that survivors should never be charged for their rape kit collection, should receive testing results, and must be notified at least 60 days before their evidence was scheduled for destruction. In February 2016, the bill was introduced. It passed the Senate unanimously. It passed the House unanimously. Not a single vote against. On October 7, 2016, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into federal law. Amanda Nguyen was 24 years old. Rise continued working state by state. To date, Rise has helped pass 33 laws across the United States, covering protections for over 84 million rape survivors. A movement started in spare time, with no budget and only volunteers, became one of the most effective civil rights campaigns of its generation. And Amanda never stopped reaching for the stars — literally. In 2024, Blue Origin announced she would be the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space. The young woman who had once feared that fighting for justice would cost her a future in space proved the two didn't have to be a choice. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Named a Time Woman of the Year. She wrote a memoir called *Saving Five.* But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Amanda Nguyen's story is not any single achievement. It is the fact that she turned the most painful moment of her life into something that made the world more just for millions of people who will never know her name. She was a college student who needed the system to work. When it didn't, she rebuilt it herself. **At 24 years old.

@millreignzo @jaesfvr mismo. walang depth yung storytelling kasi alam mo na mangyayari di pa man talaga ngsisimula. Synopsis pa lang alam na eh

@jaesfvr Alam nyo magagaling ang mga artista dito sa pinas, ang problema dyan yung writer at director kasi paulit ulit naiisip nilang concept, walang wala sila sa mga writer at director sa korea na ang gagaling mag isip ng mga series. sana mag hire sila ng mga bagong writers!!

paulit-ulit na ngang barilan, paulit-ulit pa ng bida from last year's incognito and sotf, richard at gerald na naman uli ang mukha sa primetime dagdag mo pa pagbabalik uli ni coco with sigabo, the same old faces again and again lol

One of the reasons why I stopped watching Filipino teleseryes... ffs maghihintay ka sa independent films to find the depth ng story telling. hays

potatoooooooooesssssssss.

Watching AKMU: THE PAST YEAR is hard... it's like watching yourself going through that certain phase in life through someone else and that's Suhyun.. I am so glad Chanhyuk is there.

Every time I think, Philippines is in hell... I see this and realized na me pag asa pa tayo. tang ina pag nalaman to ng mga tao samin, lintik lang walang latay eh.

@hueshis 😭😭

go kath!! kung san ka masaya 😍goodluck!!! at putanginamo

@dahliadenoire 😂🤣😅😅

babes just call us a slur at this point

@lesbvika I literally grew up like this. So whenever I recall my youth, I use the word tomboy. Not to insult myself lol but I do understand and accept how I was when I was young compared to now. Fs daghan di ka relate ani lol

hhh adding to this. i noticed that if you grew up in places that dont have many western influences, like sa probinsya (especially pre-2010's), ppl do usually use tomboy for masc lesbians. i only knew that tomboy had a diff meaning when i moved to the city + went on the internet

ppl who arent filipino citing other "tomboy" examples in the qrts . guys tomboy in the ph means butch/masc lesbian 😭

oh gosh... I remember how my classmates(boys) made their outfit and dance to this before hahahaha

gagi n back to you si Claudine dito hehe

@kyeomcam_ do it in small things. Yung mga di masyadong bongga. If you heard your friend actually praising something like a product may it be candle, book, kahit pillow pa yan or ano pa.. Get it for them. I do this for my bff.

guys ano bang magandang housewarming gift sa friend mong meron nang lahat ng kailangan nila at afford lahat ng gugustuhin pa 😭

@han__5hinee This guy is really competitive hahaa I love it

Meanwhile Minho won 1st Place at HYROX Singapore today 😭😭

only got 10,,, I hate that I forgot the last one. tsk

I miss our Kill This Love number one fan too. Iykyk 😅

@Satisfied_Blink Hahaha

Kay manobal to lahat?? Chareng

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