#julia morrison

Much like everyone else, Morrison told The Daily Beast that she was “addicted” to the news about Hammer, constantly reading the articles and comments. Despite hundreds of screenshots posted by House of Effie, who came forward last month to accuse Hammer of violently raping her, and his former girlfriends Paige Lorenze and Courtney Vucekovich publicly sharing their stories of trauma, the women were repeatedly doubted and asked to prove their experiences were true.

For Morrison, it was BS. “I’m sick of people not believing women,” she said. “I would read all the comments and it’s so triggering to see people saying stuff on the internet, like, ‘Fuck these women, we don’t believe them. They’re making it up. They’re doing it for this, they’re doing it for that,’” she said. “When I saw the House of Effie girl’s press conference, I cried.”

"I started looking into what the hell an NFT was and once I learned that it was a way to authenticate something, I said I want to make artwork out of my text messages with Armie Hammer,” Morrison explained. “The NFT is the new notary. What I’ve done is, anyone who questions the authenticity of these exchanges, I have now created light boxes with them, and I minted them as NFTs in order to say that these things are authentic and real. It’s like a checkmate.”

There will always be people who don’t like what you do. As a woman, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t… no matter what you do. Women aren’t allowed to have a sense of humor, to bring levity to our own hardships, experiences, or traumas. We’re not allowed to be too serious, forthright or ambitious either, or we must be a “bitch”. And when we stand up against our abusers — in this case a serial one — we always go to trial first:

“What were you wearing?”

“Why did you engage with him?”

“How come you didn’t come forward sooner?”