For this week's Fan Friday, we are honored to feature Lisa, a fan who created this profound and moving video to call attention to National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The National Bar Association estimates that one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. It crosses all class and racial lines and
affects not just the households it tears asunder, but the entire community in which we live. As Spring Awakening shows, these tragedies are not isolated incidents, but are systemic of a culture that chooses to sanction violence and which, all too often, silences its victims. What are the ways that our society institutionalizes violence? What lessons do we learn growing up that perpetuate a belief that violence is OK? What is our responsibility as a community and as individuals to end violence?
Thank you, Lisa, for creating this video for all the Marthas and Ilses in the world living in fear and shame who do not have a voice and must suffer "The Dark I Know Well" in silence:
There is help. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is a non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention, information and referral to victims of domestic violence, perpetrators, friends and families.
Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or 1.800.787.3224 (TTY)
2 comments:
wow that was a good video.
very touching.
seriously, amazing.
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