Journalism helped me overcome my fear of failure. I’m a better writer, artist and editor for it.

Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.

American individualism runs deep — pull yourself up by the bootstraps and move on. This mindset fails us.