Blogging Against Sexual Violence Using Creative Expression
Today is A Day to End Sexual Violence. Courtesy of abyss2hope, today is the second annual Blog Against Sexual Violence Day.
I’ve been thinking for a few days about what I wanted to write about. I cover sexual violence quite a bit here, but I wanted this to be a bit different and have deeper meaning to me, so I finally decided to share a piece of my own creative writing that tells a little but about my childhood and my own past with sexual violence.
This is a short prose piece entitled Stonewalled and was written on May 8, 2005. It was featured in North Eastern Pennsylvania’s Women’s Resource Center’s “An Empty Place at the Table” art gallery.
Stonewalled
Go brush your teeth and I’ll be right up to tuck you in.
And with that statement, you were gone. The door slammed, the car’s ignition hissed, and the tires roared away from our townhouse apartment – home for needy welfare mothers who spend their earnings from their spread your leg careers on “I’m sick of feeling like this, I want to be someone else” hallucinogens and “My veins are pretty empty and could use a lift of spirits” syringes. Where were you this time? Because I’m still in bed peering from the turned-down comforter to see you and smell the musty scent on your breath, on my face, on your clothes. When do you think you’re coming back?
This is because you couldn’t mother a pair of mistakes; the first a little more damned than the second. If the men had the money you would introduce them to your shining star concubine – age’s six to twelve. Sifting into nothing but a corpse; unable to do anything but lay there, engulfed in a wonderland of dead fairies that all look identical. Laying there as if nothing happened; gyrating into outlandish figures – all bleeding from one sacred pore.
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Whoa. Powerful. Thanks for sharing this emotional piece of art/writing, Holly. I haven’t been around much lately, but I am very glad I’m participating in BASV day. Glad to see you are, too.
Whoa. Powerful. Thanks for sharing this emotional piece of art/writing, Holly. I haven’t been around much lately, but I am very glad I’m participating in BASV day. Glad to see you are, too.
You are still the most amazing young woman I know.
You are still the most amazing young woman I know.
This makes me look at life in a whole new light. The things I have been stressing about don’t seem so much important anymore in comparison to the issues you bring you bring up here. I can honestly say, I have never hurd of BASV or anything of the sort-but I am glad that I have been introduced to it. Most things on the internet these days are pure garbage, and strictly for entertainment-this is not garbage. This is something everyone should be in tuned to and I’m glad I got a chance to come across it. I love what you do here
Wow. Your word choices are so intense. What a great thing, blogging against sexual violence. You know, when I first read that at the top, I thought the ‘creative expression’ thing was kind of an add-on, but it made me think of how much more powerful that is. So many will just rant and rage — I definitely fall into the rant and rage category on occasion — but it’s great to see someone putting their powers to good use.
Simply awesome.
This makes me look at life in a whole new light. The things I have been stressing about don’t seem so much important anymore in comparison to the issues you bring you bring up here. I can honestly say, I have never hurd of BASV or anything of the sort-but I am glad that I have been introduced to it. Most things on the internet these days are pure garbage, and strictly for entertainment-this is not garbage. This is something everyone should be in tuned to and I’m glad I got a chance to come across it. I love what you do here
Wow. Your word choices are so intense. What a great thing, blogging against sexual violence. You know, when I first read that at the top, I thought the ‘creative expression’ thing was kind of an add-on, but it made me think of how much more powerful that is. So many will just rant and rage — I definitely fall into the rant and rage category on occasion — but it’s great to see someone putting their powers to good use.
Simply awesome.
good stuff, thanks for posting. I am very glad that there is somebody out on the internet posting something of value.
good stuff, thanks for posting. I am very glad that there is somebody out on the internet posting something of value.
Wow! This is a powerful post. Please keep up fighting!
Wow! This is a powerful post. Please keep up fighting!