This Woman Wants To Reclaim Her Body After A Sexual Assault

by Gina Rushton

''Grace Garde painted a sign, covered her face in glitter, and marched through the streets of Sydney with hundreds of other women on Friday night for the 40th Reclaim the Night walk against sexual violence.

“I’m reclaiming my body, my freedom, and my happiness,” she said.Garde, 20, is being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder a year after she was sexually assaulted.

“I wanted [attending Reclaim the Night] to be something empowering I did for myself and for other people,” she told BuzzFeed News.

"I’m still dealing with everything, but I wanted to do everything I could to turn the worst thing that ever happened to me into a semi-positive experience, and I would really love to help other people and be open about it because I think that is really important.”

When Garde told her friends and family about her assault on Facebook, she did not expect to find so many other women suffering through the same experience...''