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Published: 2404 days ago

Poem of the Day: Fióna Bolger, “Fill in the…”

Fill in the …

give me your …
or I’ll rape you
and deport you

the recording
of these words
is not a shame

shame on the man
who spoke these words
the colleagues who …
the friends who never …
the training which did not …
the institution which did not …
the school which did not …
the family who did not …
the community who did not …

our silence implicates us

if we do not speak out
we are …

Fióna writes:

I was so excited to read about UpStart. The campaign during the election was a such a relief from the dull posters and dishonest slogans. I would love to see UpStart-type work appearing at protests and as protests in a guerrilla fashion around the city and country.

A protest meeting has been organised for today at 1pm at the Dáil Eireann to support the rights of women and migrants to exercise their right to protest without fear of assault or harassment and to oppose the trivialisation of rape.

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