Actresses Lena Dunham and America Ferrera teamed up for a joint speech in support of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, during which Dunham said that Clinton has stood up for her “fellow sexual assault survivors” in her home state of New York.
“I am a pro-choice, feminist sexual assault survivor with a chronic reproductive illness, the 30-year-old Girls star and creator said. “Donald Trump and his party think I should be punished for exercising my Constitutional rights. His rhetoric about women takes us back to a time when we were meant to be beautiful and silent.”
“Meanwhile, 22 years ago, Hillary Clinton declared that women’s rights are human rights. And she made it possible for my fellow sexual assault survivors in my home state of New York to have access to safe, immediate care in any emergency room,” Dunham went on as Ferrera looked on in approval.
“Hillary knows that access and opportunity are the American promise, not transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia and systemic racism,” Dunham added. “She knows we have to fight hatred of all kinds, and not ignite it for the craven purpose of seeking power.”
In her 2014 book of memoirs, Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham wrote that she was sexually assaulted on the campus of Oberlin University by a conservative she identified simply as “Barry.” A subsequent exhaustive investigation by Bretibart News later cleared Dunham’s innocent suspect of any wrongdoing.