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We have to be willing to bear witness, to bear witness to the often painful realities that we would just rather not confront, the everyday violence and humiliation that many black women have had to face, black women across color, age, gender expression, sexuality and ability.
And as we sit with these women, some who have experienced violence and some who have not survived them, we have an opportunity to reverse what happened at the beginning of this talk, when we could not stand for these women because we did not know their names.
We comment on the news, we post our views on social media, we march, we protest ... But who among us is working on solutions, big solutions to big issues, like gun violence, mistreatment of workers, flood, famine, drought?
We are part of a community of folks who are living their authentic selves all along the gender spectrum, despite the ubiquitous threat of violence, despite the undercurrent of anxiety that always is present for people who live on their own terms.
Our studies now show that over the course of the past 15, 20 years, hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world.
And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence, it is still used as a political wedge issue, cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women, the stigmatization of LGBT people, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
And what they need to understand is that there is today a generation of people who are as disgusted by the violence of religious extremism as they are turned off by the lifelessness of religious routine-ism.
She worried that the violence we witnessed would overtake our lives; that our poverty meant that the neighbors with whom we lived and shared space would harm us.
It's a kind of violence.
It is traumatic stress like active combat or natural disasters or community violence or sexual assault that causes post-traumatic stress disorder, and not everyone that is exposed to stress develops a mood disorder.
So our metaphors equate the experience of loving someone to extreme violence or illness.
Kids we are losing to forced marriages, to honor-based violence and abuse.
So, for my next film, I wanted to try and understand why some of our young Muslim kids in Europe are drawn to extremism and violence.
The thing is, I'm not trying to justify or excuse any of the violence.
I also found men brutalized by racist violence, but who found a way to stop feeling like victims by becoming violent themselves.
I could see that understanding is the answer, instead of violence.
What will it take for us to see them and notice them before they become either the victims or the perpetrators of violence?
And not just be outraged when the victims of violence look like ourselves?
And in the long term, revenge and violence will not work against extremists.
[This talk contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence] [Viewer discretion is advised] "Ashley Judd, stupid fucking slut.
Our mental health, our emotional well-being are so gravely affected because the threat of violence is experienced neurobiologically as violence.
Our friends in law enforcement have much to do, because we've seen that online violence is an extension of in-person violence.
We care so much geopolitically about what men are doing over there to women over there ... In 2015, 72,828 women used intimate partner violence services in this country.
We must as individuals disrupt gender violence as it is happening.
If you want to prevent hate and violence, we have to talk to as many people as possible for as long as possible while being as open as possible.
And I know when I say Ferguson, many of you will think of police violence.
[This talk contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence Viewer discretion is advised] Tom Stranger: In 1996, when I was 18 years old, I had the golden opportunity to go on an international exchange program.
Along with an account of the violence that he subjected me to, the words, "I want to find forgiveness" stared back at me, surprising nobody more than myself.
The seismic effects of sexual violence were spoken aloud and felt, face to face.
But how will we understand what it is in human societies that produces violence if we refuse to recognize the humanity of those who commit it?
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