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SAYSO! 2007: Cheryl ConnellAt SAYSO! 2007, Cheryl Connell performed the following. Women get thick- fat -so many different ways
The shelter was the kitchen when I escaped him in my day While neighbourhood kids chased rainbows I held fast my shades of grey When a woman child knows her fate Truth chases light away When I was girl I was touched And no- not emotionally nor symbolically Nor touched with a sense that showed me He cared for me Though my parents did They weren’t aware of he Of this man Of his hands That strangled my dreams Before I put pen to paper I was torn at the seams Of my own freedom; my reality. My lifeline became a sneaky past time Never again will he want something that is mine. Years passed Victimization comes swiftly To those who seek it Who ask Without a tremor in their voice And me, I thought I had no choice But to take it I grew up I learned to fake it Until I saw the semen in the food and in the blood And my mind it did flood Drowning not just in his fist But in my own dreams I woke up- my insides were spilling from my torn seams This big daddy doctor He prescribed me a dose of denial He had me stand trial And I stood not plaintiff, but defendant. The justification of his deeds became my punishment I was a woman as a child and grew up into a girl. I still sometimes forget how to be in this man’s world Taught me what life was really about- And teach, he did with ease I sought the sadists I sniffed them out Them, I was trained to please Until I stood thick with lies and sex And I still shudder when he breathes I used to blame the blood on him Now I mother this disease He already took so much too much I’ll be damned if he takes me! And my dreams- still held tight In my fist -knuckles white- Still bloodied at the seams
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Voices and Faces:
Charlotte Pierce-Baker 
"The way out is to tell: Speak the acts perpetrated upon us, speak the atrocities, speak the injustices, speak the violations of the soul. Someone will listen, someone will believe our stories, someone will join us."
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