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Black Duke, we need to do better “There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard” Arundhati Roy Mumbi Kanyogo
The #Metoo Reckoning In a period of about 6 months we have witnessed numerous women come forward to publicly document their trauma and expose the abusers who have violated them. What began as Tarana Burke’s call for “mass healing” amongst sexual assault survivors almost 10 years ago has turned into a global reckoning with the pervasiveness of gender violence and societal complicity. We have been forced to contend with how rape culture penetrates both public andprivate life in ways that morph even our most intimate memories of family and childhood into painful reminders of the power structures that govern our quotidian existence. The #metoo movement has shown us that sexual abuse and rape are not faceless crimes with countless numbers of statistical victims. It has taught us that sexual abuse and rape DO have perpetrators who exist in the forms of both abusers and those who make their abuse possible. It names silences as violence - it implicates those who prefer to unsee abuse and promote a politics of respectability. Yet, even while the frequency with which these men’s abusive actions are being exposed appears to be high, these public revelations do not at all account for a statistic that documents 1 in 5 women as having been sexually violated in their lifetimes – it does not even dent it. And so we must ask ourselves: who is being deliberately silenced? Who are we rendering preferably unheard?
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