Art Over Violence

Youth Mental Health and Trauma Movement

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We love this video because it subverts a bunch of dumb gender stereotypes 

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Victims often make excuses for the behaviour of their abusers. Abuse is never okay and it is not your fault. 

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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

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As a lover of words being put together poetically. This was the Notorious BIG participating in a rap battle at age 17. Straight talent. 

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Walk a mile in her shoes. An international walk to end violence against women. — at Yonge and Dundas Square

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Project Unbreakable

“Two years ago, Grace began photographing survivors of sexual assault holding up posters on which they quoted their attackers…

The only requirements are that submissions be nameless, and within quotation marks.”

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Patrick Stewart on Domestic Violence:

"As a child I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, ‘Mrs. Steward, you must have done something to provoke him.’ ‘Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.’ Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that — and even if she had, violence is NEVER EVER a choice that a man should make. Ever."

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