OUR MISSION.
The I AM JANE DOE movement exists to make the scale of sexual assault impossible to ignore.
It started as a way for survivors to stand beside one Jane Doe, to show solidarity without having to reveal their own identities. But then THOUSANDS of women started responding with their own stories. Their strength, solidarity, and bravery became the reason to build this community and this site.
The movement is about visibility, solidarity, accountability, and justice. It is about protecting survivors, demanding better systems, and forcing people to confront how many women they already know who have lived through sexual violence.
TO BELIEVE.
TO PROTECT.
TO CONNECT.
The I AM JANE DOE Community exists to make the scale of sexual assault impossible to ignore, create a safer space for women to support one another, and push for real accountability and change.
- To believe women.
- To protect women.
- To connect women.
- To make survivors visible without forcing them to identify themselves.
- To demand accountability.
- To create safer systems and safer spaces for women.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SHARE YOUR STORY TO BELONG HERE.
This space is for women who have experienced sexual assault, abuse, coercion, harassment, or sexual violence in any form.
You do not have to identify your abuser. You do not have to prove anything.
Find support on your termsOUR OBJECTIVES & DEMANDS.
These are the changes we advocate for: dignity, protection, accountability, and access to support for every survivor.
Every survivor is treated with dignity, care, and respect
Reports of sexual assault should be taken seriously from the first disclosure.
Survivors should not be mocked, blamed, dismissed, intimidated, interrogated like suspects, or treated as though they must prove they are the “perfect victim” before they deserve help.
End the rape kit backlog
Every sexual assault evidence kit should be processed within a required timeframe. No kit should sit forgotten on a shelf for years.
Survivors should have the right to track the status of their evidence and know why any delay exists.
Trauma-informed care should be standard
Doctors, nurses, police, prosecutors, judges, campus officials, and anyone handling sexual assault cases should receive meaningful trauma-informed training.
Trauma can affect memory, behavior, communication, and the ability to report immediately.
A survivor should not lose credibility because she froze, dissociated, waited to report, cannot remember every detail, or did not react the way someone expected her to.
Survivors should have more control during forensic exams
Whenever medically possible, women should be able to request a female examiner.
Survivors should also have access to trained sexual assault nurse examiners and advocates. Seeking medical care should not become another traumatic experience.
Eliminate statutes of limitations for rape and serious sexual assault
Trauma does not operate on a legal deadline.
Some survivors are children when it happens. Some are financially or physically dependent on their abuser. Some are terrified. Some suppress or cannot fully process what happened until years later.
The ability to seek justice should not disappear simply because a survivor was not ready or able to speak.
Explore Justice Shouldn’t ExpireProtect survivor anonymity
No survivor should be hunted, doxxed, exposed, threatened, or publicly identified against her will.
A woman’s identity should never become entertainment, political ammunition, or online content.
Accurate documentation of survivor statements
A survivor’s words should be documented accurately.
Her statement should not be softened, rewritten, minimized, selectively quoted, or changed into language she did not use.
Independent investigations when institutions have conflicts of interest
Universities, fraternities, athletic programs, churches, corporations, police departments, and other institutions should not be allowed to quietly investigate themselves when their own reputation or liability is at stake.
Real consequences for retaliation and intimidation
Threatening, harassing, stalking, doxxing, silencing, punishing, or retaliating against survivors should carry consequences.
That includes retaliation at school, work, online, within families, or through legal intimidation.
Accountability for people who enable sexual violence
Sexual violence does not always happen in isolation.
People who knowingly facilitate abuse, conceal evidence, intimidate victims, obstruct investigations, share recordings, or protect offenders should be held accountable for their actions.
Better consent education
Education should focus on what consent is, not on teaching women how to avoid being assaulted. Consent should be taught before college.
That includes coercion, intoxication, power imbalance, sexual violence within relationships and marriage, and the fact that silence or freezing is not consent.
Sexual assault within marriage and relationships must be recognized as sexual assault
Marriage is not permanent consent. Dating someone is not consent. Having consented before is not consent now. No person owns another person’s body.
Survivors need access to support without financial barriers
That includes counseling, medical care, forensic exams, advocacy, legal resources, crisis support, and help navigating police, courts, schools, and employers.
Find survivor resourcesTransparency from institutions
Hospitals, police departments, universities, prosecutors, and crime labs should publicly report rape kit backlogs, processing times, sexual assault reporting numbers, case outcomes, and policies for handling complaints.
Make the scale visible
One of the core purposes of I AM JANE DOE is visibility.
The profile picture, artwork, stories, and community exist to make people confront something they often avoid: they know survivors. And if they know survivors, they almost certainly know people who have committed sexual violence too.
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WHAT WE’RE BUILDING TOWARD.
These are our future goals. We will share updates as programs, partnerships, and events become available.
- Create women-only local events where women can gather without pressure to share their stories
- Host survivor-centered community nights, workshops, art events, and support gatherings
- Build partnerships with local sexual assault advocacy organizations
- Create a directory of trusted local resources for women
- Help women find trauma-informed therapists, advocates, medical care, and legal resources
- Organize community fundraisers to support survivor resources and future programs
- Develop educational materials about consent, coercion, trauma, reporting, and survivor rights
- Create advocacy campaigns around rape kit processing and statutes of limitations
- Support legislation that strengthens survivor protections
- Create scholarships or emergency assistance funds for survivors if the organization reaches that capacity
- Build safe online spaces with active moderation
- Create local chapters or community groups as the movement grows
- Produce survivor-led art, photography, storytelling, and awareness projects
- Hold annual I Am Jane Doe events centered on visibility, solidarity, and survivor support
NO WOMAN OWES THIS COMMUNITY HER TRAUMA.
You can wear the shirt. Use the profile picture. Attend an event when gatherings begin. Stand beside another woman. Share resources. Say nothing about what happened to you.
You still belong.
As the community grows, we aim to offer more ways to volunteer, organize, and contribute.
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SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY.
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