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#SheSaid

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The film She Said , which depicts the work of journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey to break the story of Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct allegations, will be released in Canada later this week, on November 18. It is not necessarily easy to put words to emotion, to describe a horror experienced, but it can be made possible if someone is willing to listen. My post today is a tribute of sorts to the women who have spoken out, indeed, to all women everywhere who speak their truth into this world, who have the courage to say what happened. #mfgp Why not say what happened? Well. A thousand reasons. You don’t want to hear. You don’t want to know. You cannot listen. You will not listen. But it happened. To me. Blood and wounds and rape and fear and loss and theft and hurt and pain. It all happened. If not to me, then to someone. To some woman.  It happened. Listen or not, I say it happened. But words bring shame. Words build walls. Words can wound and maim and kil l —  the spirit