On Monday October 3rd, up to 100,000 women took the day off work and school and dressed in all black to take part in a pro-choice march that organizers called “Black Monday.”
We thought our love song would play forever. But somewhere along the line, the lyrics lost their meaning and the song changed.
Shouldn’t our automatic response as a society be to commend and praise the young woman for defending herself against a predator? Shouldn’t the headlines say more about how a random man grabbed her and how THIS behaviour is unacceptable?
“Dear President Obama, remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him to (my home?) Park in the driveway or the street and we will be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons. We will give him a family and he will be our brother.”
“It’s the least I can do. Keep the conversation going.” – Megan Rapinoe
We do not need to abandon trigger warnings in order to achieve academic freedom. In fact, it’s quite the opposite, the dismissal of trigger warnings and the dissolution of safe spaces are going to hinder the academic freedom and learning of those students that need them.
Speaking out about an assault is already difficult enough, and instead of helping survivors and providing them with the support and resources that they need, we live in a society that silences them.
You don’t always end up with the people you love…and that’s okay.
“We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
Wanjuki and Willingham plan to continue burning one item each week until their institutions apologize or they run out of items.