I Wake Up Every Day And I

Dancing Insists We Take Up Space, And Though It Has No Set Direction, We Go There Together. Dance Is Dangerous, Joyous, Sexual, Holy, Disruptive, And Contagious And It Breaks The Rules. It Can Happen Anywhere, At Anytime, With Anyone And Everyone, And It's Free. Dance Joins Us And Pushes Us To Go Further And That Is Why It's At The Center Of One Billion Rising.

Naming Things, Breaking Through Taboos And Denial Is The Most Dangerous, Terrifying, And Crucial Work. This Has To Happen In Spite Of Political Climates Or Coercions, In Spite Of Careers Being Won Or Lost, In Spite Of The Fear Of Being Criticized, Outcast, Or Disliked. I Believe Freedom Begins With Naming Things. Humanity Is Preserved By It.

Danger Lurks When People Are Dissociated And Detached From Their Own Story Or Feelings.

It Seems To Me That We Spend An Inordinate Amount Of Time And Attention On Fixing Ourselves When We Could Really Be Directing That Out To Serving Others.

We Must Stop Being Polite And Behaved And Find New Inventive Tactics To Shift The Paradigm. We Are The Majority.