At 4 a.m. on the Saturday before this year’s Austin marathon, Summer Willis began crawling.
For the next 22 hours, she stayed on her hands and knees until she reached the halfway point of a race that hadn’t technically begun. As a sexual assault survivor and advocate, Willis was trying to raise awareness about a bill that bears her name, aimed at fixing what she and many others saw as a flaw in Texas’ sexual assault laws.
