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Today marks the high point of Take Back the Night (TBTN) week, five days of events focusing attention to gender-based violence on this campus and the rest of the world. TBTN concentrates on supporting the survivors of physical and sexual violence within our community while additionally providing, for survivors and others who care about violence towards women, a network by which to share information, support and strategies for change. In a literal sense, TBTN calls for women to be able to claim the safety of the night, but more fundamentally, it is also a way for survivors to give...
...witness to the pain. As special as this rally is--and it is indeed special, as there are too few opportunities on this campus for survivors of violence to receive the love and care of a large group of their peers--we must also recognize the limitations of the TBTN rally. We cannot be lured into thinking that the experiences and pain that people speak about during the rally do not exist before TBTN, nor can we think that they will end right after the rally. We need to sustain the energy from TBTN after this week to keep...
...that end, we need to continue the work and conversations of TBTN through a network of and for survivors of sexual and physical violence. Only then can we continue our lives within a supportive community, not alone...
When we first heard about Take Back the Night (TBTN), we were genuinely interested. We felt that a week devoted to protesting such universal women's issues such as rape, domestic violence and eating disorders would be informative and helpful for young women across campus. However, once we examined the schedule for the week, we were incredibly disturbed by one event. On Tuesday night, the Radcliffe Union of Students, along with Students for Choice, presented a "pro-choice dinner and activism workshop" as a part of TBTN...
According to a Take Back the Night flyer, "TBTN rallies and vigils protesting violence against women have taken place internationally for over twenty years. At Harvard, TBTN is an entire week's worth of events promoting awareness and action about women's issues." Abortion is not an issue of gender-based violence, nor do we believe that it should be considered simply as a "women's issue." The issue of abortion is a question of whether or not a human life is being lost, and the importance of the answer to that question transcends any claims of female empowerment. Furthermore...