Brenda Tracy is a rape survivor and an advocate. She travels — often 40 weeks a year — speaking in locker rooms, team rooms, and universities to get men involved in the fight against sexual violence.
Brenda Tracy is a rape survivor and an advocate. Her goal is to get men involved in the fight against sexual violence. So she travels — often 40 weeks a year — speaking in locker rooms and team rooms and university lecture halls, telling strangers about the worst day of her life.
We’re not going to go into detail today. But here’s the short version: In 1998, Brenda Tracy was a single mother of two young boys. She was visiting an apartment near the campus of Oregon State University. She was given a drink — she believes it was drugged. And, over the next six hours, she was sexually assaulted by four men — two of them played football for Oregon State.
"So, I remember we sat in the car, and I cried. And I told him what happened to me. And I said, 'Please don't be mad at me. Please don't be ashamed of me. I'm so sorry.' And he kind of looked at me, and he's like, 'Mom, why would I be ashamed of you? You did nothing wrong.' And that really surprised me. I was not expecting that response from him.
"People don’t always realize that it’s not just about the survivor. It’s not just the victim that has survived, but it’s the families, too. You know, my sons are survivors."
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