V-DAY 2013

“The United Nations
Development Fund for Women
estimates that at least
one of every three women globally
will be beaten, raped or otherwise
abused during her lifetime.”
-futureswithoutviolence.org

1 billion women &
men who feel that
violence against women
across the world has to end
will go on strike
this coming
February 14th, 2013.

& this writer will be standing
in vigilant solidarity
in remembrance of
my best friend in
high school whose
face had been smashed
through a glass door &
then was forced by the same
man to drive into a house
after he downed acid &
just didn’t give a
fuck.

& this writer will be standing
in vigilant solidarity
in remembrance of
my first crush whose
boyfriend raped her, beat her,
forcing her to live in
constant fear even after she
put a restraining order on him,
finally moving across the country
to find freedom.

& this writer will be standing
in vigilant solidarity
in remembrance of my first
girlfriend who revealed later
that she had lost her virginity
to a rape at a party in which
all the fucks in her hick small
town had pointed the finger
at her, saying that “she had
asked for it”---a rape that
her own mother (who suffered
at the hand of her crazy
pentacostal loon husband)
did nothing about when she
found out what had happened
to her daughter---
nothing at all.

thanks to Eve Ensler, we
will have the opportunity,
ALL OF US, this coming
February, to RISE UP &
SAY ENOUGH!

will you be with us?

LINK: http://onebillionrising.org/