#MeToo: A Poetry Collective
“Not speaking for others, especially for women, has always been critical to our critical thinking so we do not want here to attempt to “sum up” or to unify this varied selection of individual voices. (We are all too conscious of the dangers inherent in Derrida’s notion of the “totalizing assemblage,” as invoked in Sandeep Parmar’s contribution.) Those individual voices can, do, and should speak for themselves. They contain powerful cries of courage and hurt, criticism and hope; they also, we think, provide very valuable ways of perceiving these complicated, always-been-there problems anew, of witnessing them—which is of first order importance—and also thinking them through, with the attendant hope that thereby they might be countered in the future.”
– Emily Critchley and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, from the “Introduction”
Read the collective, here.
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Survey Update (Oct., 2019)
Dear patrons of the Chicago Review website,
Hello! We are conducting a research survey on reading poetry, and we invite you to participate because you have entered the “Chicago Review: #MeToo” webpage, which tells us you might have an interest in reading poetry. Some of the poems in this survey are from this website.
We appreciate your participation in this study as long as you meet the survey participant criteria, which is that you are over 18 and have NOT experienced sexual assault. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Your participation helps benefit the cause to understand the role of poetry in healing and social justice. Please click on the following anonymous link to learn more and to participate in the survey:
https://iup.co1.qualtrics.com/
This project has been approved by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects (phone 724-357-7730).
Thank you for your participation.