--- title: 1,600 Men Sign Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford description: The ad, published in the New York Times, expresses support for one of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accusers canonical: https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/ author: Eli Meixler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-27T06:20:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T21:33:33.017Z article:section: Politics og:title: 1,600 Men Sign Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford og:description: The ad recalls a 1991 campaign supporting Anita Hill og:url: https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc965d847b06ef543/69893b35457a522ce1d5f7c6/gettyimages-984909592.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6016 og:image:height: 3384 og:image:alt: Man holding the New York Times in his hand. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 1,600 Men Sign Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford twitter:description: The ad recalls a 1991 campaign supporting Anita Hill twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc965d847b06ef543/69893b35457a522ce1d5f7c6/gettyimages-984909592.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'We Believe Survivors.' 1,600 Men Sign a Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford > Sponsored content. 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Andia—UIG/Getty Images by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Sep 27, 2018 6:20 AM UTC On the eve of a high-profile hearing of misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, 1,600 men crowdfunded a full-page ad in the New York _Times_ expressing support for the nominee’s chief accuser. “We believe Anita Hill. We also believe Christine Blasey Ford,” the ad read. Published in the _Times_ Wednesday, the ad pays homage to a 1991 campaign supporting Anita Hall, who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. At that time, 1,600 black women listed their names in the _Times_ in support of Hill_._ Twenty-seven-years later, the men are taking a similar stand for Ford, calling for her account to be “carefully and full examined without bias or prejudice.” Ford alleges that an intoxicated Kavanaugh [attempted to remove her clothes](http://time.com/5397627/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault/) and covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming at a high school house party in 1982\. Kavanaugh, who faces [additional accusations](http://time.com/5407289/brett-kavanaugh-julie-swetnick-congress/) of sexual assault, has denied any misconduct. > [](https://twitter.com/MuhammadLila/status/1045068829338923009) Wednesday’s ad was organized by the [Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign](https://phenomenalwoman.us/products/new-york-times-phenomenal-woman) and [Futures Without Violence](https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/), a nonprofit that aims to end domestic and sexual violence. Extra money raised by the $100,000 [crowdfunding campaign](https://www.mightycause.com/story/1600men) will be donated to violence prevention programs, according to the organizers. “For decades, a culture of misogyny has allowed men to act with impunity and without consequence. We demand an end to that culture…That is why we are speaking out today,” the ad’s text reads. It concludes by quoting Hill, who [recently wrote](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/opinion/anita-hill-brett-kavanaugh-clarence-thomas.html), “There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.” Read a full list of the ad signatories [here](https://phenomenalwoman.us/pages/signatories). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/"},"headline":"'We Believe Survivors.' 1,600 Men Sign a Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford","datePublished":"2018-09-27T06:20:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T21:33:33.017Z","description":"The ad recalls a 1991 campaign supporting Anita Hill","url":"https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/","keywords":["Supreme Court","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc965d847b06ef543/69893b35457a522ce1d5f7c6/gettyimages-984909592.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eli Meixler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eli/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc965d847b06ef543/69893b35457a522ce1d5f7c6/gettyimages-984909592.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Man holding the New York Times in his hand.","caption":"Man holding the New York Times in his hand.","creditText":"Andia—UIG/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/supreme-court/","name":"Supreme Court"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5407772/1600-men-ad-christine-blasey-ford/","name":"'We Believe Survivors.' 1,600 Men Sign a Full-Page Ad Supporting Christine Blasey Ford"}}]}] ```