Marlee Liss works with survivors to reclaim their power in the aftermath of sexual assault. In Dance Up a Movement, a fundraiser for End Rape on Campus, Liss and her colleagues help us bring our power back to our bodies.
This is a story about an intersectional feminist open mic night — a night that took place not too long ago in a faraway land called Tkaronto.
It was the evening of November 19, 2017. A Sunday. We'd grown weary of the expectation that as women (including and especially IBPOC and LGBTQ folks), we should just stay quiet and smile to keep old straight cis white dudes happy.
"Fuck that. It's time to disrupt the status quo!"
