 Thank you all for being here this evening. Thank you for supporting the women of bill review Thank you women bill review repute. Thank you for supporting the rape price center and art and theater So give us also an applause first for that So when I was 22 many many years ago We were at this bar, and I'll never forget just being there smoking the cigarette at the time lights went out and all of a sudden just one Asked woman at a time walked out Same age as me fears as ever shoulders back heads up red lipstick Sexy beautiful powerful intelligent, and they just blew my mind Now I know for a fact that the women bill review repute came about because one of the members of the performance was Ripped and this community of women came together to heal as friends and that healing circle became a piece of artwork and Not piece of artwork is what you're going to see this evening And I challenge each and every one of you to make sure that you are awake this evening But you let this work Awaken in you everything that you have and you also go out there into the community and you do this work For women or children for our elders for the LGBT community for your sisters your mothers your grandmothers and tell those stories and Please thank you so much for being here continue to support the arts continue to support women It will refute repute and everyone you know is doing this work Thank you again, and tonight we want to welcome the women of ill repute repute Repute repute women of ill repute repute women of ill repute repute women of ill repute repute Thanks, watch your sister like your mama walking down your street like your daughter like your grandma Composing a symphony in my mind I could see the violinist about to touch the ball to the streets when damn I was walking down the street like your sister like your mama Walking down the street like your daughter like your grandma But you don't want to hear that because you're only cruising for a lover So all you see are her remember to be completely honest about what women really need There are being if you value your women so much You just have to three in that name when the short skirt speaks it will not be ignored When the short skirt it brandishes a time bomb of shame and carries with it a list of demands The short skirt demands it provokes while placing blame on women Who were never meant to wear the pants to begin with the short skirt spits roasted over the fires of rape Multiply the burden of proof as I rain down reasonable doubt The skirt says stop short skirt says go stop The short skirt did not say stop by the tales of the day when the short skirt Opened up all expectations of violence the short skirt whisper sexuality too dangerous for the weaker sex It scapegoats the body aiming and slut shaming the short skirt speaks a dangerous myth of distraction Take one hypnotizing stare if you dare up the short skirt and Mysterious get date and acquaintance rape the short skirt will explain them all the way Defining sexuality in male terms and bringing at long last I was too angry. No hysterics like a victim No tears told like a victim no pleading only angry Accusations but above all that he said she said some were deaf to my defense Some could only hear the resounding babble of the short skirt which to some speaks louder than truth Truth deeper than clothing truth, which you've heard sounds something like this Short skirt or snowshoes and snowsuit it can happen to anyone However, I was dressed it was not my fault and now I for you. I will not plead to convince you I will not dress for you I will not justify for you because this is how a slut walks how a victim acts looks like No, of course not. I never made you do that Well, imagine if I forced you to eat your own shit That is what you are doing when you force a woman to have sex with you that is rape Awake a sleep drunk or sober if you do not get a response from her or if her response is no Ask her you must stop ask her if she is okay. Hold her close or move away Respect her wishes Rape is evil Brought to you by a society that does not value women I'd argue that a woman is more valuable than a man Not to make you feel inferior, but to stress the need for you To treat all women with the gentleness and fierce respect Believe me. You'll be glad you did daughter Me hot. You're beautiful Your beauty is not only External it is internal You must know that men will try to get you into their beds You should always be careful when choosing a partner It is usually best to choose the one that is not too aggressively pursuing you the quiet one However, sometimes the quiet ones can be a little freaky If you decide to take him home or maybe just make out in the car Please let your friend know or even better bring your friend along But if you should decide you do not want to have sex with him. You must always speak your mind Please know that you are in no way ever obligated to do so You are in charge of your body and no one can take that from you now go explore and have fun You're at a party you left the party you're about to make your big move now the word you want is Yes, the magic word is No, no Silence is no. I'm busy is no. I should get back is no. I gotta get up early tomorrow is oh my god Take the hint already. No Can't always be said So repeat this only yes is yes Only yes is yes Only yes Should be sought often and yes Should be given often and creative Whispers your name that pays you to keep going that fights your ear Relishes your neck wraps itself around your back and strap can only get it when you know Only yes This Will only take a minute says the box But allow five for proper results. It's the same routine This cover sit and wait One line two lines plus sign minus sign The lady at the store excited and probing Do you think you might be pregnant my husband and I are trying to have kids, too? I Give her a shaky smile lie Say it's for a friend. This will only take a minute. I Listen to the girls that work griping about sword backs and cramping insides and I could kill them for it. I Have to fight the urge to cut their belly and trade their empty internals for mine occupied and It only took about a minute before it felt like radio waves fluttering through my body Before you the size of a pea realized your power to pull me downward to my feet Before you began like an atom bomb harvesting in my abdomen Detonation was vital. I Decided I didn't want you before I even knew you were there Why can't I part my lips without screaming without our regret seeping through skin? What should have been blood shed a month ago is now an endless stream of tears Around the family table right-wing relatives unwittingly exchange Propaganda much like the poster toting picketers outside the clinic Murderer is what they will call me baby killer But they just don't know I do this because I want what is best for both of us Slowly I feel the sleepiness disperse through my veins and then I feel nothing Nothing but a jerk a Hot jab in my abdomen someone squeezing my hand Picture you swimming through that too Tiny pink and circular so ascending upward And we were free from each other both ready to be reunited at a better day My mother tells me when she discovered that I indeed was inside of her She felt the most unabashed happiness. She's ever known If I don't feel that happiness at this moment if you're just salty stone stuck in my heart It will never be right This pain your departure has made me realize how much I will crave that job when it's perfect planned and Desire your hair is shiny and straight and long and your hips are Starting to form and you are wearing heels that your parents should know will cause your calf muscles to not grow properly I want to take your hand and March you straight through the head of the boys and girls club after school challenge taking place in my cafeteria March you straight to the principal's office and yell Penis is not a dirty word You've been put in detention and by the way, no I don't appreciate someone pulling you from my excellent after-school enrichment program because they thought you needed to be punished more than you needed to be taught You were going to learn about butterflies You are going to understand how monarchs can smell milkweed up to two miles away How they migrate over 1200 miles a year You were going to be inspired and power groomed instead You were shamed You're when your mother came to pick you up the challenge instructor tried to explain in his broken Spanish repeating louder and louder in front of your friends penis she said penis Confused maybe embarrassed by her English or maybe by the word mom grabbed you and didn't question didn't ask how you were taught This word didn't couldn't think maybe this is a word that is taught and oh I don't know health class you were absent the next day in the next day and said she needs to know this word Be friends with this word P when she's ready organ by organ learn the full vocabulary testicles vagina HPV HIV pregnancy consent These words and more she'll need as her body as Your body grows into the special perfect sacred you You are meant to giggle while mounting the words finding joy in your curiosity You are meant to explore and get to know these words But I didn't run up a Second guess myself. I wanted to back up a fellow educator be unified But damn that didn't work out for you. Did it little girl With your hair shiny and straight and long I'm keeping my eye on you Because I see you I know you I owe you and One day I will take you by the hand and you will be inspired empowered and groomed to lead She gave birth to me early Her back and thighs bloody from the whipping you gave her Nurses and doctors gave her dirty looks and the blame He soon again when we had money you threw them down at seven months a flight of stairs That night they learned to fly somehow survived You're a man come back to haunt me now that I'm a woman I fell in love with him His poetry drawings his turning me into the Azteca She won in life sustaining corn goddess I drove west side to south side any time every day for his beauty I know that at my age I'm a fell for your charm married to and tried to please You've been said this was the thought those on your sister got to and being exiled from our lives We sell being and what? Why did you come back for me? May one now it does the tanto. I ignored mama's warning Realized I would sing la cancion de la misma lucha You think you're a man you once held me as a baby outside a window seven stories high threatening my life my mother with my life AIDS claimed your frame get somehow your spirit escaped now It's his hands gripping my neck in a manner of depressive rage something about demons possessing his body maybe you Both times I'm innocent not knowing why can only cry Think sees a man he grabs me by the arm and throws me pregnant on the bed I Realized there's six more months to protect before his rage kills my baby by now. I don't care about me I only keep thinking about what when mom went through Went through then through I too In the event that you are not able to run It's a special animal it requires a lot and just like begging a cake One lick too many and you're just stuck with a gooey mess It's life-affirming You become Wonder woman in touch with the universe You are stardust and you see it stepping stone to FBO's Most women experience appreciates and devour yours to wait for a selfless partner Here is my guide to orgasm take a shower or at least wash your hands The freedom to touch any part of your body that feels good Let all your worries melt away As you gently rub and caress yourself Imagine a very sexy scenario Let your fantasies lead the way Music is helpful. Prince is my pick Things that turn you on words like fuck or God Whatever takes you there if you have time make a night of it Take a long bubble bath lingerie and pose in the mirror The more uninhibited you are with your with yourself the better Orgasms come easy when you find a way to appreciate your body in the most sincere way Part two and with partner Who happens to have a penis? Lay your partner down Take the reins Take a ride if you will Then fast then slow again then fast let loose feel free If you want to stimulate your clip for an even better orgasm turn around with one of his legs between yours and continue to stay Emotions he will appreciate the view and believe me it won't take long Part three the lazy way Between you and your partner directly below your clip and take a ride this works well for quickies Part four oral stimulation Relax stay in the moment in your body not in your mind Forget about the dirty dishes Now with two fingers now with two fingers open your lips Ask your partner to first wet their fingers then slowly insert one or two of them into you Have them lick and please lip Lick and kiss your lips and click while you vocalize the most when it feels the best. I promise it won't take long I never knew what an orgasm felt like until after I had my first child I'd had sex and enjoyed it and even almost climaxed for years from the very first time at age 15 all the way to age 20 I decided to be celibate for at least a year during my most of my pregnancy and sometime after What a mistake I never I had no idea that some of my best orgasms would happen later While I was in this sacred state when everything you feel is heightened Back to my first orgasm It was my first time making love with a woman We were deeply in love. I watched her come into her room with just a towel. I Couldn't take my eyes off her smooth muscular legs The desire I'd been carrying for her for over a year had finally made me strong enough to make a move to kiss her After we kissed passionately, I laid back in her warm comfortable bed and let her pleasure me like no one had ever done before She made out with my most intimate body part of my body kissing nibbling licking touching and caressing me until it happened. I Climaxed for the first time in my life and it felt started. I Cried tears of blissful joy and then thought to myself All these years with my past lovers all of whom I've loved and even been in love with some all these years not one of them cared enough To make sure I got mine These fuckers only cared and I don't need cared That they had come and were pleasureed She made I never left them hanging the way they'd left me hanging all those years this time I didn't even have to reciprocate. I didn't know yet how to make love to a woman. She knew and understood and truly only cared that I was fully satisfied which made me cry even more Feeling treated like a queen being fully pleased and not having to worry about my lover coming. I Know now how to make love to a woman and feel wiser for it for me It's still all about pleasing my lover, but at least now I know how to lose all inhibition I know it's important that I allow and sometimes demand and expect That I have my own experience my own orgasm My favorite orgasms are the ones I have all by myself In other words, I know how to masturbate and give myself the time it takes to reach climax still I know my body better than anyone else ever will Orgasms are reached sometimes with just hands Rubbing and touching of course. I'm still always grateful for caresses and kisses in the Right spots my neck and my nipples are my favorite pleasure spots The beautiful thing is that each of us is unique We each have our own ways of reaching orgasm the important thing to know is that everyone deserves a good orgasm Special place by accident at first sensation Joking startling strange Oh It was my name. You're the very side of me Got there too much attention too much creation Choose be a cheese mom that shit. So he let go. I Accepted his drunken voice answering me hot. He a good girl as he draws me closer. I Was not a great was encompass me. I try to pull away his breath hot behind my neck His wrinkled hands invade me as he caresses my softness. I Was a shade She's trying and a tiara and pink and none of this is a power that shits a headache It makes for a willful daughter Because it's been three days since she's let me brush her hair those teeth of hers are seriously turning green And her toes smell like pickles cuz she refuses to bathe She just keeps saying over and oh my choices. She explains And she's gotten several versions down You know when she's making her first argument. It's a straightforward thing like my choices When she's trying to be a little more persuasive She's like and when she's frustrated Which is often our local daughters She is She's argumentative some call her a brat Many look at me and shake their head Get it together lady. Teach that child some manners some values You don't have long before she's a twig and then so that she looks straight at growing up and says I Don't believe you daughter is willful grateful her decisions and Make her own choices when she found me sobbing a Shamed of these large soft objects bulging out of my chest Seem to be growing bigger every day a Shamed of curious fingers that poke a Shamed of comments and whispers that sting a Shamed of greedy hands that wrote Wiped away my tears held me tight and gifted me with the most precious gift. I have ever received Self-comp, her words have shaped me her love has molded me Me hop, you are beautiful never feel ashamed of what God gave you Most women wish they had what you have you should flaunt your hourglass figure. I Was too young to truly understand her words But she never tired of reminding me even sewing dresses that flattered my brain. I Began to feel my shoulders lift My back straight until I was finally able to celebrate my body Now I stand proud Lucky to have this gift to pass on to my daughter So that she will one day blossom say their pine full potential good at math but not beautiful Beautiful dangerous Get angers Well, my daughter is Beautiful she teeters on her pillow with dirty tiptoes Kissed with fairy glitter and asks mommy. Can I open my window? Her voice is small and pure and She with her hands tiny and stretched she twists in moonlight and street lights And her her brown skin turns purple with a silvery halo See mommy she marvels at a landscape Full of fairies and wishes drawn only for her warrior princess eyes and I desperately try to Unsee That she will be one in five to face hunger But she will be one in four to endure a sexual assault one in seven to attempt Suicide I try to Unknown halfway across the globe another mommy just like me watched helplessly as her daughter was ripped limb from limb and burned alive Just for the audacity of her beauty I tried to scrub these images from my brain, but they like fairy dust stick to everything My daughter's beauty is just as pernicious for she is Precocious she is precious. She is sacred and pure and she is willful and smart and she's a trickster And she is headed into waters of ache So deep I would love to tell you that laws are made not to protect her But to protect you from me should you hurt her? Mama bear style Threaten an eye for an eye should the world with its latest brand of evil come knocking on my door, but I can't I Know better I know I need Your help Maybe it's your privilege or your fearlessness or your whiteness or just your shoulder whatever you got. I need it I need you to stand up for her sacred childhood stand with me Scream into the hurricane stop praying stops playing black skin on my screens. I'm not fooled I know brown skin has been is and will be again the next that you digest I need you to choose the battles. We must win Stand with her Stand with me Proclaim your loyalty Loudly dig your toes in open your blinds to your privilege car scrub sweat and scream Let us with is now nauseating On a daily base suffer like morning sickness only morning noon and night As we see black and brown husbands fathers pregnant sisters paced and brutalized. I sing along Because these men Whose pay comes from our pockets these men who are supposed to protect and serve These men with badges and guns Are just that men no my dear than any other We should not be afraid to reach for our IDs just to be shot repeatedly We should not fear these men for all they are is men No, my dear than any other Not wiser than my father no my dear than any other no my dear any of you She would pay spec teaching the cage bird than having the option to leave Doesn't make leaving any easier some days. I get so tired of this grips my heart so tightly It hurts to breathe and it only helps if I breathe in the manner the women in my family I want to be alone now For what will follow Thankfully the bathroom my my most reliable Sexuary is indifferent to these episodes. I force the sadness to the surface Please out sounds no stop expecting women would make in public tears Though to many in our society the image of a woman grieving Alone Slavery like a child is unattractive To me family women have embraced their pain Regenerations kick back straight shots of grief no chaser to help them through the bitterness locked horns in a head-on Collision with heart it is place pain being strong doesn't always mean Feeling strong some days. I get a being strong some days We must let our son we can move