RAPE IS RAPE: Activist Culture Short Version

So this is going to be a short one.
I'm taking Women's Studies to fulfill an English requirement and a gen. ed. and everyday we start of the class with what our professor fondly refers to as WTF moments.  Essentially, we share little bits of feminist news or personal reflections whether it relates to the current class material or not.  I was browsing a feminist news website ( http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswire.asp) when I stumbled upon the headline "Activists Project 'Rape is Rape' on to US Capitol".  Well, obviously I found this intriguing and so when I looked at the picture of what had been done, I found this:

Hella cool, right?  It leads you to start thinking about the different, non-detrimental ways that activists, or really anybody with a message can speak to the world at large.  I chose blogging.  Luminous Intervention and FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture chose a typography display using light as their medium.
And when you really think about it, light is just a wave.  Light is a wave that moves continually and allows us to see things we might have missed otherwise.  Similarly, our actions and words are just a wave that allow us to think about ideas we might never have considered.  And if light can affect our government, then we can affect the world.
Now, isn't that something?

Cheers!

If the World Was a Classroom

If the World Was a Classroom

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to hate.

To hate deeply the injustices of Her situation,

And hotter than the bodies who hate Her.

To hate more strongly, more cutting than the false diamonds of false lovers,

And longer than the span of ignorance.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to shun,

To shun the wayward advice of others,

The blessings and curses

Societies and loneliness,

To shun Her innermost judgments and assumptions.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to despair,

To despair at the quality of life She has been apathetic to,

And at the self-imposed oppression of global society.

To despair at the violence that stains the street with gore and rumor,

And also at the silence that follows.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Woman to hate, to shun, and to despair.

I would teach Her these things

So that She would learn to love, to accept, and to hope

So that She would learn to be independent of Her own body

And grow into Her mind and heart,

Grow into Her thoughts and actions.

If the world was a classroom,

I would teach Girl to be Woman to be Teacher.

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