Please please read Eve's book, a collection of pieces by notable men and women poets and authors about ending violence. It is now being used as a tool in community and university productions just as the Vagina Monologues is. I'm just starting it, but found Eve's first words in the introduction moving. I share them with you below, and hope they inspire you to seek out the book.
"Words. Words. This book is indeed about words. Speaking the unspoken. Speaking the spoken in a new and viable way, speaking the pain, speaking the hunger. Speaking. Speaking about violence against women not because it is the only issue, but because it is an issue that lives smack in the middle of the world and is still not spoken, not seen, not given weight or significance. So that words crack open numbness and denial and disassociation and distance and deception. Speaking so that we are in community, in conscience, in concern. " (Ensler, 13)
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