Fri 31 May 2019 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Kikar Rabin - Ibn Gvirol, Tel Aviv,
“Slut”.
The worst insult that can be used against a women, isn’t it?
It’s not incidental that a word that’s used to shame and humiliate women, is also used to justify sexual assult.
It’s not incidental that each and every one of us can find herself a “slut”, even if she doesn’t have sex at all.
When we’re being called sluts, the language becomes a tool in our oppression and in establishing power dynamics with us.
Because if you’re a slut than “you couldn’t have been raped because you always want it”.
We will no longer take this form of opression.
There is nothing that can justify sexual assault- no item of clothing, no behaviour, no reputation- No means no, and only a Yes is yes.
The Slut Walk is the moment in which we shake off the shame and guilt that are forced upon us. It’s the space where women believe each other, empower one another, share their own stories of assault and oppression, and show that it’s not an individual woman’s experience, but that of all women.
The word slut has no power over us, because we march together and reappropriate it’s meaning.
No one can use it against us because we are together.
This word can’t hurt us, and no one will say we were asking for it.
We are the sluts, women who take the common pain and harm and say- no more.
No longer will we apologize for who we are, how we dress and behave.
No longer will we apologize for our right to safely walk in public spaces.
And no longer will we apologize for not taking the blame for the harm done to us by another.
And together, we are not afraid and we don’t apologize.
Join us on friday, the 31 of May, in a protest against sexual violence and victim blaming, and call out loud with us and thousands more men and women: no woman is to blame for being assaulted, nothing can justify assult, and we no longer apologize.
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