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“Were You Looking to Have Fun?”: Reporting a Rape

On WeChat, women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently shared a troubling account of her experience attempting to report a rape to local police in Sichuan. An 18-year-old college-student had reached out to Xiao for help after a date rape, and the activist describes the humiliation, doubt, and harassment that waited for the two women as they attempted to file a report to local police. Xiao Meili, a vocal Chinese feminist activist, in 2014 organized a 2,000 km protest walk from