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Taylor Swift is heading into a public legal battle against an alleged groper this week as an act of solidarity with other women in and out of the music industry who have been sexually harassed or assaulted, some experts and advocates have speculated.

The pop music superstar appeared in a Denver court on Tuesday as a jury was finalized.

The lawsuit centers around her claim that former radio disc jockey — David "Jackson" Mueller — groped her during a 2013 fan meet-and-greet before a show. Swift and Mueller have sued one another over the alleged groping incident.

Swift claims she was sexually assaulted by Mueller when he lifted her skirt and grabbed her bare buttocks whileReview: 'Fire Road' adds napalm girl's voice to famous photo

In many ways, Kim Phuc has never left Route 1 in Vietnam, the highway where Associated Press photographer Nick Ut captured her running on June 8, 1972.

It's one of the most enduring images of the 20th century, highlighted again in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 18-hour series, "The Vietnam War," that aired on PBS last month. Phuc runs naked toward Ut's camera, her arms flung away from her body. The 9-year-old is screaming, "Too hot! Too hot!" because of the napalm searing her back and left arm.

For most of her life, Phuc writes in a new memoir, she tried to run away from that moment when she became the Napalm Girl. Throughout "Fire Road," she explains how she came