The Silent War is a social awareness campaign about rape in South Africa illustrated and designed by Greg Richards.
“As there are six colors in the South African flag I developed six different areas of rape to raise awareness towards. Each poster carries a different colour of the flag. The six areas are: child rape; why men rape; woman’s chance of being raped versus learning to read; South Africa being the rape and HIV capital of the world; women are primitively referred to as fair game by men; and the frequency of rape incidents per day. For each image the person is looking directly at the viewer to create a direct communication of the campaign’s message.” writes Richards.
This is Africa, our Africa
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A voice is needed…so speak out!
A voice is needed for the girl who’s father sneaks into her room at night and crawls in her bed
A voice is needed for the young boy who’s uncle makes him touch areas that shouldn’t be touched
A voice is need for the siblings who’s alcoholic mother locks them in a closet and fractures their ribs with blunt objects
A voice is need for the woman who had dreams of making a new start but was sold like the latest pair of high-heeled shoes she now where’s when she’s is forced “on the job”
A voice is needed for the man beaten to a pulp because he had just recently left the gay bar and was on his way home as the word “fag” escapes their lips
A voice is need for the transmen and women who are shunned on a daily basis as “freak” “tranny” and have no where to go
A voice is needed for the lesbian who is ostracized as “dyke” or objectified as a male fantasy in hopes of having a porn scene unfold upon you in the middle of the sidewalk.
A voice is needed for the bisexual who is deemed as “unable to pick a side”
A voice is needed for the women who is raped,and then blamed because she decided to where attire that showed some skin.
A voice is needed for so many people,my list could go on. Silence will only exacerbate the problem.
Speak out!
The love of my life and daddy to our twins - @DavidBurtka - was born today. I am very glad he was.
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An amazing poem
Just testing this poetry reciting stuff out..don’t have much experience with speaking my poetry which is odd considering how much I’ve written…but I guess I’ll chalk it up to my shyness.
First poem in the video I wrote when I was 17,second one around the same age.(I’ve been writing long that 17yrs old though)
“Go out and change the world you live in…it’s the only one you’ve got…”
-Staceyann Chin
