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The Daily Abuse: Women's Accounts of Sexual Violation
Forty-seven women represent their true experiences with sexual violation through prose, full-color art, and poetry. This book IS a trigger violations range from groping to catcalling to international sex trafficking to violent rape and near-death assault. These are not lawyered-up celebrities' stories. They are the anecdotes of # everyday ladies who brandish our keys as we walk with purpose to our cars so it doesn't happen, yet again. These are the ladies raising their sons not to whistle at women. These are the courageous daughters and sisters and moms and wives and teens who grant you consent to know what happens to them in elevators, subways, and their marital beds. It's "The Daily Abuse." And we're done taking it quietly.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 6, 2018
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February 27, 2019
Look long at that which gives you pleasure, look longer still at that which causes you pain." - Christmas Humphreys.
This is a book for 49% of the world's population - men.
It's about what the other 51%, the majority, women, are put through by the minority because they have written it, for they have lived it. They continued to live it.
Every day.
Every man should read this. We need to see the acts done by so many, we need to stop this. The men who need to read this, won't. The men who will read it have a responsibility to make awareness of the problems a part of the conversation we have with one another.
Every time you see it.
To give you some reference point, by way of context, I come from an abusive, alcoholic background, replete with domestic violence. I'm a six foot tall, white, 54 year-old bisexual man. As a child I lived the violence too. As a consequence of witnessing the hitting, the screaming, the bleeding lips, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what sexist violence was, what domestic abuse was. And what a man can do to his wife, his family and his community.
How little I knew.
The pervasiveness, the constancy, the degree and extent of our families, friends, workers, and neighbors violence, damage and degeneracy is put out in this book and I now know more than I imagined.
We, men, need to see through the eyes crying out in this catalog of horrors, witness and own it.
Read this book. We will all be the better for it.
This is a book for 49% of the world's population - men.
It's about what the other 51%, the majority, women, are put through by the minority because they have written it, for they have lived it. They continued to live it.
Every day.
Every man should read this. We need to see the acts done by so many, we need to stop this. The men who need to read this, won't. The men who will read it have a responsibility to make awareness of the problems a part of the conversation we have with one another.
Every time you see it.
To give you some reference point, by way of context, I come from an abusive, alcoholic background, replete with domestic violence. I'm a six foot tall, white, 54 year-old bisexual man. As a child I lived the violence too. As a consequence of witnessing the hitting, the screaming, the bleeding lips, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what sexist violence was, what domestic abuse was. And what a man can do to his wife, his family and his community.
How little I knew.
The pervasiveness, the constancy, the degree and extent of our families, friends, workers, and neighbors violence, damage and degeneracy is put out in this book and I now know more than I imagined.
We, men, need to see through the eyes crying out in this catalog of horrors, witness and own it.
Read this book. We will all be the better for it.
April 9, 2020
Trigger alert but very important
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