Giveaway: “And So I Step Up” Literary Lacquer

“And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.” 

~ Margaret Atwood's Offred, from The Handmaid's Tale

My selection of this Literary Lacquer Giveaway was inspired by women like Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra and countless other women, and Anthony Rapp and Harry Dreyfuss and other men, who have stepped up to talk about their suffering sexual harassment, sexual assault, and even rape at the hands of those in positions of power over them. A lot of people don't understand the struggle and PTSD that stepping up and speaking out can entail.

Whenever I think of not being seen as having ownership of your own body, or rights of refusal, I think of Margaret Atwood's powerful dystopian (and hopefully not visionary) novel, <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>.  The idea of stepping up, facing the darkness of memories within, captures the past month, with news filled with those who are brave enough to step up and speak out.

Your body is your own, whether you're male or female or in between. And only by people stepping up and speaking out will we stand a chance of preserving those boundaries.

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