One Horrific Night Ended A Life And Changed Hers Forever. She’s Been Unstoppable Ever Since.

Today, Meera can bravely stand in front of an audience and speak about her personal experiences with sexual violence while growing up in India — but it hasn’t always been that way. It took a complete stranger’s tragic incident (at 2:20) for her to make a big decision about how she was going to look…

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Nov 6, 2014

Trigger warning: graphic descriptions of sexual assault.

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