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Harassment101 was started after a long standing personal battle with harassment. This site was going to be a platform for sharing my personal struggle with harassment. After doing research and touching base with other harassment survivors, I realised the problem was much greater than myself and I decided to create a resource where all targets of harassment could find help, information, and support. I wanted to create a powerful resource where every-ones voice could be heard. I realise that silence robs us of our power, and I wanted to give back personal power to the people. There are hundreds and thousands of stories out there about woman and men who have suffered harassment. When these individuals asked for help or assistance to get the harassment stopped, the agencies that should have been there to protect them and their rights, either failed, turned a blind eye, or even helped with the harassment. This site seeks to help right some of that injustice by giving individuals an avenue of support and empowerment. My story is just one of many harassment stories. After years of harassment I realised I had grown strong on many levels, and that I could help others with what I had learnt through my own personal experience. I believe when you lose you should not lose the lesson. I also believe we are here in this world to give something back to others. This is something that I can do for myself and I can also do it for others. Harassment takes away many things from a person, it takes away your dignity, your self esteem, your ability to trust, to function fully as a human being, but mostly it takes away your power. The power that you once believed that you had is taken from you. One minute you have power over your circumstances, your environment, and the next minute that power is taken away. I want to help you regain your power, by providing the tools you need to take back what was lost. I am here to help and to support you, as you go through harassment, and to help you recover if you have already been harassed. This site hopes to give enough information to help you understand what you are going through. I hope that by sharing our mutual experiences we can grow strong through each other. Together we are better and stronger. If we raise our voices together we can be heard. We can make a change in each others lives, and we can make a change in drastically flawed systems that are still letting such things happen to us and to others like us. Together we are powerful, and we can make a difference. |