The Power of Women Coming Together. #MeToo and Beyond…

#MeToo

When I was in my early twenties, a couple of close female friends told me about their sexual assaults. I was horrified and sad and distraught. And I started to do research to learn the best way to support them and also to find other sources of support.

As I did the research I learned how often this kind of thing was happening. A recent survey by Stop Street Harassment came out this January and found that 81% of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment.

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Power

out?
Who turned off the lights?
And what is art anyways?

Is art the perspective from which we view the world?
Or is it more static?
Created
Formed
Form.

And as I write by candle light
I can’t quite imagine writing any other way

Poetry is not written in the bright sun.
It is written in the shade,
In private moments
with the heart.

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