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    This poem explores the speaker's difficulty giving and receiving consent as an adult due to never being taught about consent as a child. The speaker recalls always having to do chores at home while their brother had freedom, and not feeling able to say no because that word was forbidden. The speaker questions how they can be a strong or respectable leader if they were only taught to be a silent follower and to keep their voice quiet.

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    This poem explores the speaker's difficulty giving and receiving consent as an adult due to never being taught about consent as a child. The speaker recalls always having to do chores at home while their brother had freedom, and not feeling able to say no because that word was forbidden. The speaker questions how they can be a strong or respectable leader if they were only taught to be a silent follower and to keep their voice quiet.

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    307 Escape

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    This poem explores the speaker's difficulty giving and receiving consent as an adult due to never being taught about consent as a child. The speaker recalls always having to do chores at home while their brother had freedom, and not feeling able to say no because that word was forbidden. The speaker questions how they can be a strong or respectable leader if they were only taught to be a silent follower and to keep their voice quiet.

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    Escape

    Sydney Hastings

    how can i
    verbalize consent
    as an adult, if I was
    never taught to as a child

    I am always made
    to do work at home
    while my brother
    was given free rein

    I couldn’t say no
    that word was
    forbidden

    how am I supposed
    to be strong
    if all I was taught
    was to hunker down
    belittle myself
    surrender the alphabet
    and keep my
    BIG 
    loud
    mouth
    shut 

    how can I
    be a respectable leader
    if all I was taught
    was to be a
    silent follower

    - ​escape

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