Citizen Rose

I encourage you all to watch the documentary Citizen Rose on E!

Rose McGowan has been an activist for the #MeToo movement since allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein went public in October of 2017, followed by claims regarding a host of other Hollywood and media predators. In this documentary she talks about her experiences with sexual assault in the film industry.

Since becoming an activist, Rose has written a book called BRAVE. McGowan describes a life of almost ceaseless abuse, of falling into the clutches of one sadistic ogre after another as powerful forces conspired to crush her rogue spirit. “One of the greatest tricks that the patriarchy plays on women is to deliberately destabilize them, then use their instability as a reason to disbelieve them. Much of BRAVE reads like the diary of a woman driven half-mad by abusive men who assume no one will listen to her. In this case, the truth was finally—and, for McGowan, triumphantly—exposed…”

-K.Flowers