V-Day 2013

“The United Nations Development Fund for Women estimates that at least one of every three women globally will be beaten, raped or otherwise abused during her lifetime.” -futureswithoutviolence.org 1 billion women & men who feel that violence against women across the world has to end will go on strike this coming February 14th, 2013. & this writer will be standing in vigilant solidarity in remembrance of my best friend in high school whose face had been smashed through a glass door & then was forced by the same man to drive into a house after he downed acid & just didn’t give a ****. & this writer will be standing in vigilant solidarity in remembrance of my first crush whose boyfriend raped her, beat her, forcing her to live in constant fear even after she put a restraining order on him, finally moving across the country to find freedom. & this writer will be standing in vigilant solidarity in remembrance of my first girlfriend who revealed later that she had lost her virginity to a rape at a party in which all the ****s in her hick small town had pointed the finger at her, saying that “she had asked for it”---a rape that her own mother (who suffered at the hand of her crazy pentacostal loon husband) did nothing about when she found out what had happened to her daughter--- nothing at all. thanks to Eve Ensler, we will have the opportunity, ALL OF US, this coming February, to RISE UP & SAY ENOUGH! will you be with us? LINK: http://onebillionrising.org/