This NYFW Show Aims to Reclaim the Question All Too Familiar For Sexual Assault Survivors

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How RiseNowUS's nguyen_amanda is using fashion to empower survivors of sexual assault.

"What are you wearing?" It's an exciting question you hear over and over again on the red carpet and at fashion shows. Yet it's also the same inappropriate words that are all too familiar for survivors of sexual assault., who penned her own rights into existence after her rape as a college student, wants to reclaim that very question as both a survivor and lover of fashion.

When she first attended Fashion Week, she had a"light bulb moment," Amanda, who's the founder and CEO of, a social movement accelerator for civil rights activists, told POPSUGAR in a recent interview."I realized that one of the most popular questions to ask is, 'I love your outfit, what are you wearing?' I realized I'd heard this question before in my life, after my rape. The exact same words, but in dramatically different contexts.

 

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