{"id":2492,"date":"2011-03-23T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2011-03-23T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T10:25:18","slug":"violence-against-women-not-in-my-backyard-er-subway-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/03\/23\/violence-against-women-not-in-my-backyard-er-subway-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against Women? Not in My Backyard-Er, Subway Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When my dear friend and beloved colleague Gloria Feldt invited me to write a guest post for the 9 Ways blog <\/a>in honor of Women’s History Month, I thought long and hard.\u00a0 I wanted to do justice to Women’s History Month, while also offering, as her tagline suggests, “tips and power tools for No Excuses<\/em><\/a> readers.”\u00a0 But I was feeling at a loss for words.\u00a0 I ended up beginning the post like this:<\/p>\n

The other day I was riding the number 2 train home from the city, thinking about what I might write here in honor of Women\u2019s History Month and feeling overpowered by current affairs. The tsunami, earthquake, nuclear disaster. Senseless murders in Libya. The gang rape of an 11-year-old girl. This month, I sense such widening circles of sorrow swirling, it\u2019s easier, I confess, to shut off and just hold close those I love. If I pause long enough to truly let the world in, I fear I\u2019ll be carried out on a wave, swallowed up by a sea of emotion from which there is no return.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then something happened to me.\u00a0 I witnessed an act of violence–against an older woman–in the subway car.\u00a0 And suddenly I knew what I would write about: the tragedy going on right in our own backyards\u2014that which lifts us out of our chairs and just kind of compels us, without thinking, to act.<\/p>\n

You can read the full post here.<\/a> And if you haven’t read it already, I strongly recommend reading Gloria’s book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Two of the lessons she writes about come up, a bit, in my post: Know Your History.\u00a0 Wear the Shirt.\u00a0 Gloria has taught me a tremendous amount about the value of these lessons–and so much more.\u00a0 It was an honor to write this for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my dear friend and beloved colleague Gloria Feldt invited me to write a guest post for the 9 Ways blog in honor of Women’s History Month, I thought long and hard.\u00a0 I wanted to do justice to Women’s History Month, while also offering, as her tagline suggests, “tips and power tools for No Excuses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,133,21927],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-violence","tag-womens-history-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}