Did anyone here see Rebecca Mott's statement after IWD last year?

[redqueen]

I missed it. Here is an excerpt and a link for anyone interested.

Reasons I Cannot Celebrate Yet

Today is International Women’s Day, and as an exited prostituted woman I find I cannot celebrate yet – but I continue to fight in the hope that one day I can.

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I cannot celebrate as prostitution and violence inside porn becomes just an appendix to the feminist revolution – or our lives and truths are just viewed as a terrible example, but ignored for it too big to deal with.

I cannot celebrate when always voices of amazing exited women are side-lined in the campaign for abolition – our voices are made statistics, made part of some academic book, used as quotes – we are spoken over, spoken through, and spoken around.

I cannot celebrate until the abolitionist movement put the voices and writings of exited women in a leadership role – we are not your token prostitute, we will not be treated like pets.

I cannot celebrate as every day I feel in my gut what is happening in hotels, in flats, on the streets – that so many walk pass and say is normal.

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http://rmott62.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/reasons-i-cannot-celebrate-yet/

h/t to http://survivorsconnect.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/i-cant-celebrate-international-womens-day-until/

[Helen Reddy]

1. Followed her blog.

This woman has been through hell and back. Writing about the horrors she experienced must be cathartic.

[seabeyond]

2. i agree. that is a good post and i am keeping it, lol.

i was feeling the same without it in words, about what the issue was with iwd. but, this is it.