spoken-word poet | It Is What It Is

~~October 31, 2016~~

ANYTHING IS DANGEROUS … WHILE A WOMAN

ONLINE EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

… to generations of terrified men hiding behind screens!

I found this video this morning as I ‘surfed’ through my Facebook feed.

This weekend I watched the ‘Michael Moore in Trumpland‘ movie.

It’s interesting to me how the message that Agnes Török ties in with Moore’s movie and the fact that there’s the first woman nominee for President of the United States.

Please, listen to her.

Her message is amazing!

HortyRex©

Agnes Török is a multilingual award-winning spoken word poet, author and workshop leader. Török has been featured as a TED speaker, regularly collaborated with the BBC and featured at multiple international festivals for arts and sciences.

She has performed on four continents, writing and performing poetry about intersectional feminism, economic equality and the politics of mental health.

~The Project~
The Dangerous Women Project is an initiative of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

The Project asks: what does it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’?

The idea that women are dangerous individually or collectively permeates many historical periods, cultures and areas of contemporary life (despite, and in some instances in response to, explicitly feminist movements).

We may take lightly the label attached by mainstream media outlets to women such as Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, or Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as being ‘the most dangerous woman in the UK’.

But behind this label lies a serious set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today.

The Dangerous Women Project will curate 365 responses to those questions from all over the world between International Women’s Day 2016 and International Women’s Day 2017.

For continued reading and full information visit

~~OFFICIAL WEBSITE~~

http://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/07/reclaim-the-internet/

~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~

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HortyRex©

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Content warning: explicit language, threats of rape and violence

~~Reclaim the Internet~~

Agnes Török & Dangerous Women Project

~~Published on Sep 7, 2016~~

We are facing an online epidemic of violence against women. Of threats and harassment. We must #ReclaimTheInternet.
BIG NEWS: I am releasing a book – more about the book and how to order it here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/46504…

Agnes Török is an award-winning spoken word poet and workshop leader writing about politics and the science of happiness.

You can follow me on
http://www.agnestorok.org
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TW: https://twitter.com/AgnesTorokPoet

We ALL are ONE!!

~~January 18, 2016~~

AN OVERREACTION

Today is a very special day.

It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Today we celebrate his legacy and his life.

To me, there’s even more relevance to his message and his work in our current times.

HortyRex©

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King’s birthday, January 15.

King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King’s honor began soon after his assassination in 1968.

“As it appears in …. full read/full credit”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day

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~~GALLERY~~

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In light of #BlackLivesMatter protests across the country, people have been reflecting on how #MartinLutherKing Jr. would have responded to the deaths of #MichaelBrown, #EricGarner, #TamirRice and many other black men and women who have been killed by police.

19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O’Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction,” where she speaks about Dr. King and her frustration at having to defend the protests.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://share.ajplus.net/shared/4227

~An Overreaction: Words On #BlackLivesMatter And MLK~

~Published on Jan 18, 2015~

19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O’Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction

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#WeAllAreOne #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex #HortyRex #hrexachwordpress

We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!!