For a moment I stood before a shop window staring at my own reflection in the glass, trying to recover from the ride against the woman. I was limp, my clothing wet. “But you’re up North now,” I told myself, “up North.” Yes, but suppose she had screamed… The next time I used the subway …
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Amnesty International Brings Images of Violence and Torture to Your Busstop.
The images of this Amnesty International campaign are powerful and it is a clever ad, but I do wonder: How much do they trigger those who have experienced horrifying things like these and are now navigating our space?Amnesty International Brings Images of Violence and Torture to Your Busstop.
“"If we can love transgender people that would be a revolutionary act.” Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) speaks about being a trans woman of color; about bullying, harassment, violence directed at trans women, and about love (here meaning justice in public.) as a revolutionary act. A 7 minute must-see speech. (Content note: Description …
Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood. Haruki Murakami: 1Q84
Perhaps to some teaching “rape is wrong” seems silly—don’t we all know this already? The truth is we don’t—as a country, we don’t really even understand what rape is. In Steubenville, a student who had learned that drunk driving was wrong—he took car keys away from an inebriated friend—looked on while an unconscious girl was …
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.
ethiopienne: sheresists: Language is never neutral. “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence.” – Toni Morrison
kenobi-wan-obi: wespeakfortheearth: Detroit cop who killed 7-year-old girl walks free after mistrial Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley was spared a felony conviction on Tuesday over the killing of a 7-year-old girl after a jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared, according to Detroit Free Press. Weekley shot and killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones on the night of …
[TW: Violence] “What can men do? Men do not just need to stop being violent. The vast majority of men are not violent. But men do need to stop being silent. Calling violence against women, whether street harassment or sexual harassment or rape or murder, a ‘women’s issue’ allows men to ignore it as if …
I’m obviously not the only person who understands gun violence to be an issue about families and gender. I had to check Mitt Romney a few months ago about his comments about unwed mothers contributing to gun violence. I disagreed with him for a lot of reasons, the main one being that most of the …
“Disassemble our discriminationWhen violence rules the world outsideAnd the headlines make me want to cryIt’s not the time to just keep quiet Speak up one time TO THE BEAT” Sleater-Kinney -Step Aside @ Coachella 2006 Such a good version of such a good song. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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