Sorry I haven't blogged in forever. I've just been working on some personal stuff and needed to have some healthy distance from the Internet. This may sound hypocritical, and I do apologize, but if you are going trick or treating ( I can't due to SATs two days after) but I think it would be really great if you could just have a quick chat with your neighbors about child sex trafficking while you are at their doors anyways. This to me, seems really convenient to educate and spread the message of abolition and restoration, with maybe some candy on the side! :) It's just a thought and hopefully it can work for some of the readers.
With love & prayer,
E.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
This article is an example of how sexual perpetrators get the upper hand. I would put every name of every child sex trafficker on these shirts, but there are too few shirts because of the secrecy and too many names because of the sickest greed imaginable.
University tries to limit anti-rape demonstration
At the University of Maryland, a traditional rape-awareness event is coming under fire.
For the past 17 years, students have participated in a rape awareness program where victims and advocates against sexual violence hang T-shirts along a huge clothesline on campus.
The program allows victims to turn their backs on the crime and have a voice. Some victims also write the names of their assailants on their shirts.
But this year, university lawyers are instructing participants not to write names on shirts to avoid potential lawsuits.
The students say they still plan on hanging the shirts with names on them. One student and a member of the Student Advocates for Education about Rape, Khalifah, says "This is just another way [of] silencing sexual assault victims.
This reminds me of my all-time favorite movie of bad-ass girls, Girls Town. There's a scene where one of the characters scrawls on their high school bathroom wall the name of the guy who raped her, identifying him as a rapist. When she comes back to the wall later, other girls have written down the names of their assailants. There's power in naming. The University of Maryland should support that."
University tries to limit anti-rape demonstration
At the University of Maryland, a traditional rape-awareness event is coming under fire.
For the past 17 years, students have participated in a rape awareness program where victims and advocates against sexual violence hang T-shirts along a huge clothesline on campus.
The program allows victims to turn their backs on the crime and have a voice. Some victims also write the names of their assailants on their shirts.
But this year, university lawyers are instructing participants not to write names on shirts to avoid potential lawsuits.
The students say they still plan on hanging the shirts with names on them. One student and a member of the Student Advocates for Education about Rape, Khalifah, says "This is just another way [of] silencing sexual assault victims.
This reminds me of my all-time favorite movie of bad-ass girls, Girls Town. There's a scene where one of the characters scrawls on their high school bathroom wall the name of the guy who raped her, identifying him as a rapist. When she comes back to the wall later, other girls have written down the names of their assailants. There's power in naming. The University of Maryland should support that."
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Thank you to the Board of Benevolence for giving Love146 $500.00! Such wonderful acts prove, if there's a will then there's a way.
People DO care and DO want to abolish child sex trafficking and exploitation. You'll be surprised at how many abolitionists you will come across. The struggle for justice is very difficult, but we are not alone in our desire to end slavery. We even had kindred spirits back in the 1800s during the first abolition movement! We are carrying on their legacy and strength, to give strength to those who are enslaved.
Many Thanks!
People DO care and DO want to abolish child sex trafficking and exploitation. You'll be surprised at how many abolitionists you will come across. The struggle for justice is very difficult, but we are not alone in our desire to end slavery. We even had kindred spirits back in the 1800s during the first abolition movement! We are carrying on their legacy and strength, to give strength to those who are enslaved.
Many Thanks!
Monday, October 01, 2007
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