Survival essentials

Mariame Kaba

There are no perfect victims

Audre Lorde

There are many types of power. Move through it. The erotic. We have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and non rational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it within themselves. 

Bessel Van Der Kolk

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

Mariame Kaba

‘The system isn’t broken’ - It cannot be fixed

Ruth Gilmore

Move through it

Judith Butler & Erica Meiners

Sex offenders are not second class citizens. The constitution protects their liberty and dignity just as it protects everyone else's. 

You do not have to accept the justice that is ‘given’ to us.

There are new realities, different realities, and alternative forms of justice for victims.

Explore and question

Bell Hooks

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair

Mary Starks Whitehouse

“[DANCE] opens up their individual sense of themselves and teaches them that they are humanly valuable to each other. It is the discovery of the growth process that is themselves becoming. The word 'becoming' moves, it is the movement aspect of eternity. Being is the essence; becoming is the movement of the essence. After all it is Life that dances”.

3% of sexual violence cases make it to court

80% of people convicted of sex offences experience rape in prison

SEEK PLEASURE

90% of people who experience sexual violence have suicidal ideation & experience PTSD. Allow yourself space to grieve, release. Take up space. Solidarity. Hang on to hope with everything you got.

SEEK RELEASE

DANCE

RAGE

LOVE

RELEASE

QUESTION JUSTICE

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN