--- title: Lena Dunham and Her Sister Talk #YesAllWomen and Campus Sexual Assault description: Dunham's sister made a symbolic gesture to pressure her school to protect victims of sexual assault canonical: https://time.com/119016/lena-dunham-yesallwomen/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-27T19:04:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:21.739Z og:title: Lena Dunham and Her Sister Talk #YesAllWomen and Campus Sexual Assault og:description: Dunham's sister made a symbolic gesture to pressure her school to protect victims of sexual assault og:url: https://time.com/119016/lena-dunham-yesallwomen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Dunham and Her Sister Talk #YesAllWomen and Campus Sexual Assault twitter:description: Dunham's sister made a symbolic gesture to pressure her school to protect victims of sexual assault twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lena Dunham and Her Sister Add to #YesAllWomen Discussion > Sponsored content. 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In high school a very disturbed boy told me if I didn't choose to love him he would make me, followed by a series of graphic threats… — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) [May 26, 2014](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/470747400106426368?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) … My school handled it quickly and never questioned how I'd "provoked" him and it told me that I matter. I wish that for every woman. — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) [May 26, 2014](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/470747766961213441?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Women began sharing their stories of misogyny using the [#YesAllWoman hashta](http://time.com/114043/yesallwomen-hashtag-santa-barbara-shooting/)g over the weekend after it was revealed that a hatred of women may have inspired the University of California Santa Barbara murders last Friday. Elliot Rodger, who [is suspected of killing six people before committing suicide](http://time.com/116799/ucsb-victims-memorial/), left behind YouTube videos and a manifesto describing his hate for women who reportedly rejected him. Since then, men and women have shared millions of tweets protesting sexism and gender violence. That same day that Dunham tweeted her story for #YesAllWomen, she posted a picture of Instagram of her sister’s college graduation cap adored with the number 9\. The caption on Dunham’s post read: “My sister Grace graduated from college today. I am so proud of her. 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