“The hardest part wasn’t the bruises,” Maya said quietly. “It was the silence. The way the world looks at you and sees a ‘victim’ before it sees a person. So you learn to hide. You learn to smile. You learn to lie.”
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Similarly, the Time’s Up legal defense fund was built directly on the back of from Hollywood, leading to laws banning non-disclosure agreements that silence victims. So you learn to hide