Bobbie Singh-Allen (Personal Account)

😳 @maiyangvang - I hope you will reconsider your plans to participate in a livestream fundraiser with social media influencer Hasan Piker on October 14, as reported by FOX40 News. Piker's documented rhetoric about sexual violence and women raises serious questions about the values such a partnership communicates. The political #MeToo movement emerged because women had endured too many instances in which powerful people were given the benefit of the doubt while those affected by misconduct were expected to bear the consequences. It was a call for a political environment in which women's experiences and dignity would no longer be dismissed - certainly not by the people who are responsible for creating the public policy and laws that should benefit us all. Sexual assault is not a punchline. Rape is not an acceptable device for entertainment, political commentary, or online notoriety. The dignity and safety of women should never depend on whether the person making such remarks shares our politics.