by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 26, 2013 | Art of Intervention
If you have entered into conversation and dialogue about the issue of sexual violence, you may have heard the term “rape apologist.” While this term hasn’t yet made it into Webster’s Dictionary, an apologist is someone who “makes a defense in speech or writing of a...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 8, 2013 | Art of Intervention
This week, I tried to help a blind man on the subway. I say tried because whatever I did was totally not helpful at all, despite my best intentions. I was waiting to get on a busy rush hour train as I saw a man with a white cane exiting from the subway car. He was...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Jul 15, 2013 | Art of Intervention
When an injustice occurs, it’s human to be angry. Being angry is easy, and it feels good and cathartic. But in order to actually address systemic injustices, we need to be mindful of the ways in which we allow that anger to shape our response. Today, on a summer...
