Lena Dunham’s account of her own sexual assault at Oberlin has been a controversial subject for months due to details which have fallen apart under scrutiny.

That didn’t keep her from discussing campus rape on a panel at the Sundance Film Festival.

Dominic Patten and Anthony D’Alessandro of Deadline Hollywood reported.

Lena Dunham Tackles “Perv” Woody Allen, “Puritanical” USA & Campus Rape At Sundance Panel

The Girls creator left the packed Egyptian Theater in Park City today with no doubt about what she thinks about attacks on pushing the boundaries of humor, the director of Manhattan and sexual assaults on America’s campuses. “In some ways America is at its most puritanical,” Lena Dunham said Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival’s Power of Story: Serious Ladies panel when addressing some of the reaction she and her HBO show has received…

When it came to a question from the audience about what political issues were of importance to her, the consistently vocal and avowed feminist Dunham talked about abortion and campus rape. “The idea that women can’t be complete and total citizens until they have control over the destiny of their own bodies,” she said of reproductive rights in America “It’s not just a political issue, it’s a lot about class, race and it feeds into all these other forms of inequality and injustice that exist in our country.” Dunham noted that women are “still fighting” for the right to terminate pregnancies 42 years after Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court.

“One of the reasons it is important to talk about campus assaults,” Dunham told the Sundance crowd, “is that that these women in positions of incredible privilege are still being forced every day to fight for their truth and that is indicative of the fact that sexual assault is an epidemic and so many people are voiceless.” Dunham herself wrote in her recent best selling memoir Not That Kind of Girl about an assault on her when she was in college. “I think campuses are a great place to start because that’s where we’re being educated and that’s where we’re told we’re going to be safe,” she added, to applause and cheers.