I was in Washington, D.C., that whole week to protest. It was the first time I’d been away from my kids for that long. On Monday, a friend and colleague of mine, Ady Barkan, an activist who’s dying of ALS, organized a day of men showing up in solidarity with women. The form of protest we were doing involved disrupting with stories. We would show up to a senator’s office, and people would tell story after story after story. Then the police would come and arrest us; those who weren’t arrested would move to another senator’s office. We did this day after day.

When we started the stories, they were all about health care and abortion, but when Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony on Thursday, people — mostly women — began to share their own stories of sexual assault. It was very much like lifting the veil.

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