Ashley Judd is hitting back against Twitter users who sent her misogynistic and violent threats after an NCAA conference championship game last Sunday.

MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart reports that the actress and avid college basketball fan told his colleague Thomas Roberts that she would seek legal action against individuals attacking her online. Judd, a rape and incest survivor, received an onslaught of vicious comments after she posted a sharply worded comment to Twitter during the game.

In an unsparing op-ed piece for Identities.Mic., Judd writes,”[During the game] I posted a comment to Twitter that some found unsportsmanlike. I didn’t much care for three players bleeding on the court, and I tweeted that the opponent was “playing dirty & can kiss my team’s free throw making a—.” The volume of hatred that exploded at me in response was staggering.”

Judd continues, “Online harassers use the slightest excuse (or no excuse at all) to dismember our personhood. My tweet was simply the convenient delivery system for a rage toward women that lurks perpetually. I know this experience is universal, though I’ll describe specifically what happened to me.”

The actress goes on to detail the content of the online messages she received: “Tweets rolled in, calling me a cunt, a whore or a bitch, or telling me to suck a two-inch dick. Some even threatened rape, or ‘anal anal anal.’ ”

And the icing on the cake: “I watched Simon Birch. Lousy movie, but I got to see Ashley Judd die.”

Capehart received similar treatment after he penned an article on the recent events in Ferguson, MO, asserting that the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative was built on a lie. He stands in solidarity with Judd, vowing that the defenders of the status quo won’t keep him from speaking his mind.