Warning: This story contains graphic language of a sexual nature.
Canadian writer Kelly Oxford put out a call on Twitter for women to speak out about how they’ve been sexually assaulted and received millions of replies.
The call went out just hours after a video showing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump boasting about how he can “do anything” to women, including grabbing them without warning, was released by the Washington Post.
Oxford is an Edmonton-born, Los Angeles-based author, screenwriter and blogger whose Twitter feed was named one of the New York Time’s most influential in 2011.
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On Friday, she first asked women to tell her about their assaults to prove that “they aren’t just stats,” before offering up ways she’d been assaulted in the past.
Within hours, her name and the hashtag #NotOkay was trending on Twitter.
Oxford said she received 9.7 million impressions within one day of posting.
The story has since gone viral, and news sites around the world, like the Washington Post and The Guardian have picked it up.
Oxford said she’s received multiple stories each second since she posted, and they’ve continued pouring in as of Sunday.
The full list of women responding can be found on Oxford’s Twitter timeline.
Here’s a short selection of some of the replies she’s received.
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