The VOICE JOURNAL

Rants. Plus poems about rage, motherhood, politics, grief, awakening and the refusal to be quiet. New work posted as it happens. Read, share, feel something.

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Jane Doe: Naming Her Is a Crime in the UK but Legal in America

I am Jane Doe. I can actually say that and mean it. Over here a woman who reports rape gets anonymity for life, by law. In America a man with 350,000 followers can ask the internet to find her, and the only thing standing in his way was thousands of other women. And before we get smug, 2.8% of reported rapes here end in a charge.

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Poetry With Shaking Hands Poetry With Shaking Hands

Because. We.

Because I am an English woman,
and I care what happens there.
Because what they do with women’s rights
ripples through the global air.
Because in the land of the free,
they’ve locked the clinic door…

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