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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Women share their sexual assault

    The leaked tape of Donald Trump talking about grabbing women’s genitals without their consent is not going away. The first question from the debate moderators Sunday night was about the tape, and Trump reacted by saying his lewd comments about women were just ‘locker room’ talk, nothing serious.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 10, 2016 • 1 min read

    The leaked tape of Donald Trump talking about grabbing women’s genitals without their consent is not going away. The first question from the debate moderators Sunday night was about the tape, and Trump reacted by saying his lewd comments about women were just ‘locker room’ talk, nothing serious. But thousands of women on Twitter had a different reaction. Blogger and Twitter personality Kelly Oxford asked women to share their stories of sexual assault in reaction to the Trump tape. First, she shared her own story of a man groping her genitals and smiling at her on a city bus when she was 12.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Presidential politics and Syria, and sexual assault survivors speak out
    1. 0:30Where do Clinton, Trump stand on Syria?
    2. 9:38What Hector Tobar's students taught him about white despair
    3. 18:41Women share their sexual assaultYou’re reading this
    4. 28:26Can a vegan diet help treat multiple sclerosis?
    5. 45:11The mysterious and otherworldly photos of Gregory Halpern
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