http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/10/08/and-then-there-was-silence/ Anasuya's musings and amusings about life, the universe and whatever Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/10/08/and-then-there-was-silence/#comment-109 Gladly Beyond Any Distance :: Beyond saying no: how to fight sexual harassment Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:30:47 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/anasuya/2006/10/08/and-then-there-was-silence/#comment-109 [...] Today’s post is for N. For being the right kind of strong. P, M and N - and all the other women whose stories I hear on an almost daily basis - made me ashamed of my awkwardness around writing about what I know and do most: working with the police (and women’s and children’s organisations) trying to make the system as responsive to violence against women and children as possible. In an earlier post, I spoke about this strange awkwardness, but enough is ’nuff. Diffidence is sometimes stupid, and sometimes it can be downright dangerous. ‘Changing the system’ is as much about changes within, as it is about making us - those without - responsive to, and informed by, these changes. [...] [...] Today’s post is for N. For being the right kind of strong. P, M and N - and all the other women whose stories I hear on an almost daily basis - made me ashamed of my awkwardness around writing about what I know and do most: working with the police (and women’s and children’s organisations) trying to make the system as responsive to violence against women and children as possible. In an earlier post, I spoke about this strange awkwardness, but enough is ’nuff. Diffidence is sometimes stupid, and sometimes it can be downright dangerous. ‘Changing the system’ is as much about changes within, as it is about making us - those without - responsive to, and informed by, these changes. [...]

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