"un chien andalou"

projectunbreakable:

Taken today.
This woman, moments after her rape last year, had to scream and cry on a public street just so the police would actually take her to the precinct - they wouldn’t because they told her what happened wasn’t a crime.
This is the excerpt from her email she sent me, before we met up:
There was one female officer, a sergeant, who responded to my 911 call that night. I truly thought, She’s a woman, maybe I can get through to her, woman-to-woman. As the police tried to escape to their cars and leave me weeping pantyless on the sidewalk, I followed her, begging with her to listen to me. I said to her something like, “Please, please help me… Imagine as a woman what this must feel like for me…”
The quote on the poster is what the female sergeant replied.
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On a different note, this is going to be the last photo until the weekend is over. This project is tough to manage, but it’s probably also tough to read as well. I think it would be good for all of us to take a couple of days to just breathe. Okay? Okay. No clicking onto the site, either. Just take some time for yourself.
xo
Grace

Taken today.

This woman, moments after her rape last year, had to scream and cry on a public street just so the police would actually take her to the precinct - they wouldn’t because they told her what happened wasn’t a crime.

This is the excerpt from her email she sent me, before we met up:

There was one female officer, a sergeant, who responded to my 911 call that night. I truly thought, She’s a woman, maybe I can get through to her, woman-to-woman. As the police tried to escape to their cars and leave me weeping pantyless on the sidewalk, I followed her, begging with her to listen to me. I said to her something like, “Please, please help me… Imagine as a woman what this must feel like for me…”

The quote on the poster is what the female sergeant replied.

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On a different note, this is going to be the last photo until the weekend is over. This project is tough to manage, but it’s probably also tough to read as well. I think it would be good for all of us to take a couple of days to just breathe. Okay? Okay. No clicking onto the site, either. Just take some time for yourself.

xo

Grace

pullingmypigtails:

Do you have a sort of method to stop yourself from laughing?

schwathing:

this is an elphie’s trajectory post. (badump tsssh.)

more memes here

(Source: fcukthisishhh)

projectunbreakable:

Rape and abuse is vile and isn’t confined to women victims. I think every single poster abuser quote held up by the brave participants has been said to me after getting ass raped or having to perform oral sex on my Father from the age of six until I left home as a teenager. I never did tell and he never did slit my throat or kill himself. At certain times I wished he had. Not now. Thank you.

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Thank you to the reader who submitted this. If you have an image you would like to submit, please email me at grace@50extraordinarywomen.com.. And if you’re in NYC, MA, NJ, or Washington DC, then I would potentially be able to photograph you in the near future - just send me an email.