Christine Blasey Ford's testimony. Brett Kavanaugh's outburst [1]. Jeff Flake's . . . flakiness.
If you've been keeping up with the rotating news cycle, you'll know that it's been a tough week for women. Hell, it's been a difficult past few decades [2] — especially for sexual assault survivors [3]. That's why, in light of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, one beauty brand [4] has launched a new fundraiser to fight back.
Katie Sones first launched Lipslut [5] early last year with a simple premise: fight the patriarchy, one lipstick at a time. The inaugural hue, a moody pink called F*ck Trump [6] ($20), dropped when the 45th president took office. Now, there's a new shade in town: F*ck Kavanaugh [7] ($20), a deep red hue as bold as the women who inspired it. (You can check it out for yourself ahead.) Every penny of the lipstick's proceeds will go toward various anti-sexual-assault organisations, like RAINN [8], No More [9], and End the Backlog [10], from now until Sunday, Oct. 7.
This one, as Sones told POPSUGAR, is for the girls. "While watching the hearing and the events leading up to it, I got so upset seeing women's voices being ignored, doubted, and flat-out denied," she said. "Watching this struggle at a national level seems to confirm our worst fears and assumptions. It isn't just our schools and employers that willfully ignore claims about sexual assault — it's the government, it's the law, it's everyone. If the highest levels of government won't listen to us, who will? To me, this entire mess serves as a microcosm for how thousands of women's experiences and traumas are treated every day — we had to act."
Besides any survivor's story, there's yet another thing you should always believe: "that we should do everything in our power to change this reality," Sones said.