A primary reason I pursued journalism was to be a voice for the voiceless, to be an instrument of representing those viewpoints that are not held by officials or agencies but are the reflection of daily life that gets swept under the rug. A hope, too, was that in holding up the mirror to society that glimpsing our reflection would spur needed changes and shed injustice layer by layer.
One of those areas that I feel is routinely undervalued but unfortunately widely experienced is domestic violence. Having just finished a fantastic read -- A Thousand Splendid Suns, which I highly recommend to everyone, I was left with this thought:
Tragedy is when a child's heart must be broken so his mother's body isn't. Tragedy is the malice and neglect that break and defeat too many women across the globe.
More on this in future posts.
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