The tides have certainly turned for disgraced TV icon Bill Cosby, who has been accused of sexual molestation by dozens upon dozens of women.

Thirty-five of the former Cosby Show star's alleged victims came together to stand strong against their accuser, posing for a power photograph for the cover of the July 27 edition of New York magazine. The public's hunger for more information around this increasingly shocking story is clear -- New York magazine's website crashed Monday morning for over six hours and is still down. The mag's headline reads, "Cosby: The Women. An unwelcome sisterhood."

On the cover, 35 women, who range in age and ethnicity, are lined up on chairs, with their names underneath their images, thus ending their anonymity. Within the pages of the magazine, each woman shares her own account of what happened, including an essay by Noreen Malone. Photographer Amanda Demme also took individual shots of each woman as well as group portraits.

Malone says in her essay:
    "The group of women Cosby allegedly assaulted functions almost as a longitudinal study - both for how an individual woman, on her own, deals with such trauma over the decades and for how the culture at large has grappled with rape over the same time period. In the '60s, when the first alleged assault by Cosby occurred, rape was considered to be something violent committed by a stranger … But among younger women, and particularly online, there is a strong sense now that speaking up is the only thing to do, that a woman claiming her own victimhood is more powerful than any other weapon in the fight against rape."


The mag's feature includes testimony and photographs that highlight the diversity and scale of Cosby's alleged victims.

In a 2005 deposition that was made public earlier this month, Cosby has claimed that his drug-fueled encounters were consensual -- but we think these accounts speak volumes.

Kudos to the women who came forward and told their truth -- they are helping themselves and others.