Assault
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I'd read news reports, statistics, and knew how common sexual
assault
was, yet I couldn't actually name a single person that I'd heard speak out about an experience of this kind before.
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In this heightened moment of xenophobia and
assault
on immigrant identity, I wanted to think through how the game could serve as an affirmational tool for first-generation Americans and immigrant kids, to ask them to consider movement patterns on the field as kin to migratory patterns across social and political borders.
So in addition to promoting those proactive solutions, the other thing we need to do is upend the hate in our institutions and our policies that perpetuate dehumanization and difference and otherizing and hate, like systems of sexual harassment and sexual
assault
in the workplace, or our deeply racially imbalanced and deeply racially biased criminal "justice" system.
And if I said, "No," she'd
assault
me again, and if I said, "Yes," she'd leave me alone.
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to wield and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment,
assault
and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.
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