Knowing the name of someone who is oppressed does not create immediate radical change. Yet knowing names and stories of victims of violence reminds you that what you see and have learnt has been produced from the perspective of the perpetrator. To challenge the status quo we need to understand it and see it for what it is: ridden with injustice.
As a society, we pretend we don't know what was done by our people, and that makes it easier to see isolated incidents in the present, void of context, or with the US and its inequality as the only focus. No, this hits home.
I've just finished listening to "Know my name" and have to rave about it. In this book I found so many things I know to be true about a life and a window to a world I have always been afraid to fall into: the one of a victim of rape or sexual assault.
Dare to be b@ld 