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content warning:<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/span>fire used against a woman to repress reporting of sexual violence<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n for Nusrat Rafi<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s easy for a man to say it\u2019s \u201cno<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n big deal\u201d while he decides to give away<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n your identity, victimology, to show<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n a face online extremists see just days<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n before they bring you to a roof \u2014 accused<\/span><\/p>\n some man \u201cabove reproof\u201d just eleven<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n days ago \u2014 tell you they\u2019d let you go, bruised<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n if you\u2019d recant, but you know a woman<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n can, by lie,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>escape, today, a roof;<\/span><\/p>\n tomorrow die with coerced proof, complicity<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n in crimes against the patriarchy. Truth<\/span><\/p>\n you tell though it is met without pity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Eleven days before these flames you feel,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n you tell a man who\u2019ll say it\u2019s no big deal.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Author\u2019s Note: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Nusrat Rafi was a nineteen year old schoolgirl in Bangladeshwho was burned alive on the roof of her school after she reported her principal for sexual harassment.\u00a0 <\/span>She would die of her injuries four days later.\u00a0 <\/span>Her story and \u00a0<\/span>the story of another 19 year old girl Jessica Chambers of Mississippi are featured in my manuscript The Stakes about fire being used as a tool of misogyny against women historically and in contemporary society. \u00a0<\/span>It will be published next year by APEP Publications.<\/em><\/p>\n Kristin Garth<\/strong> is a Pushcart, Best of the Net & Rhysling nominated sonnet stalker. Her sonnets have stalked journals like Glass, Yes, Five:2:One, Luna Luna and more. She is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Pink Plastic House (Maverick Duck Press), Candy Cigarette Womanchild Noir (The Hedgehog Poetry Press), Flutter: Southern Gothic Fever Dream (TwistiT Press), The Meadow (APEP Publications) and Shut Your Eyes, Succubi (Maverick Duck). Follow her on Twitter:\u00a0 (@lolaandjolie) and her website http:\/\/kristingarth.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" content warning:\u00a0 fire used against a woman to repress reporting of sexual violence No Big Deal for Nusrat Rafi It\u2019s easy for a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"From our Kristin Garth, Regular Contributor \n\ncontent warning:\u00a0 fire used against a woman to repress reporting of sexual violence","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[220,175,268,213,161],"tags":[265,267,264],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feminism","category-gender-politics","category-patriarchy","category-poetry","category-metoo","tag-misogyny","tag-power-imbalances","tag-violence-against-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=700%2C467&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}No Big Deal<\/h1>\n