{"id":2179,"date":"2015-12-24T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content\/img\/thumbs\/img567bb8d829843.jpg"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:04:17","slug":"why-women-need-to-write-write-on-sisters-write-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/why-women-need-to-write-write-on-sisters-write-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Why women need to write – Write ON Sisters, write on!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EVE ENSLER  Sarajevo, September 11,2015<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why women need to write.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

when we write we exist<\/span><\/p>\n

we develop an alternative persona that is free<\/span><\/p>\n

we practice liberation<\/span><\/p>\n

we are seen <\/span><\/p>\n

we are known<\/span><\/p>\n

we take up space<\/span><\/p>\n

we give voice to what we know and don\u2019t know we know<\/span><\/p>\n

writing forces us to go deeper, be more honest<\/span><\/p>\n

to face our demons and wrestle with our limitations<\/span><\/p>\n

we become  archaeologists mining the terrains of the subconscious<\/span><\/p>\n

we become athletes developing the discipline and rigors of the body<\/span><\/p>\n

we become magicians crafting our spells and tricks<\/span><\/p>\n

we deepen our faith in direct experience –the most trusted force on the planet<\/span><\/p>\n

we stay sane<\/span><\/p>\n

we wake up and wake the others<\/span><\/p>\n

we peel back layers<\/span><\/p>\n

we delight<\/span><\/p>\n

we embarrass<\/span><\/p>\n

we disturb<\/span><\/p>\n

we stir the witches brew<\/span><\/p>\n

we find a path for articulating and catalyzing rage<\/span><\/p>\n

into beauty and resistance<\/span><\/p>\n

we connect<\/span><\/p>\n

we burn<\/span><\/p>\n

we are not alone and carve out a space in the larger<\/span><\/p>\n

struggle and universe<\/span><\/p>\n

we are ceaselessly humbled<\/span><\/p>\n

we find our sisters<\/span><\/p>\n

we write because we were told we could not<\/span><\/p>\n

should not write<\/span><\/p>\n

we write to question the givens<\/span><\/p>\n

we write to defy the fathers that silenced us, raped us belittled us, undermined us. punished us for  the hugeness of our knowing, sexuality and life force, burned us at the stake<\/span><\/p>\n

we write to<\/span><\/p>\n

formant revolution<\/span><\/p>\n

to love our characters into breath<\/span><\/p>\n

to ride the original stream that pulses each one<\/span><\/p>\n

of us<\/span><\/p>\n

to meditate on the particular<\/span><\/p>\n

to inhabit a rose and a refugee<\/span><\/p>\n

to expand the breath of our compassion<\/span><\/p>\n

to grieve<\/span><\/p>\n

to make people laugh and to touch into the absurd<\/span><\/p>\n

to merge with the mystical<\/span><\/p>\n

to establish our place in time and history<\/span><\/p>\n

to radicalize <\/span><\/p>\n

to say what many are thinking but are afraid to say<\/span><\/p>\n

to unearth  an alternative reality<\/span><\/p>\n

to push boundaries<\/span><\/p>\n

to break out of this prison of patriarchy<\/span><\/p>\n

to breath life into a new landscape of being<\/span><\/p>\n

to find allies<\/span><\/p>\n

to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

to find justice<\/span><\/p>\n

to explode taboos<\/span><\/p>\n

to climb the orgiastic vibratory thread of language<\/span><\/p>\n

to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

to refuse to be numb and dead<\/span><\/p>\n

to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

to provoke<\/span><\/p>\n

we write because  it\u2019s exhilarating and terrifying and deeply pleasurable and wildly torturous and impossible and<\/span><\/p>\n

engaging in the impossible is the madly generous ongoing endless work of women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Write ON Sisters, write on!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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