{"id":336,"date":"2002-07-18T23:55:26","date_gmt":"2002-07-18T23:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/07\/18\/emotional_intensity.html"},"modified":"2002-07-18T23:55:26","modified_gmt":"2002-07-18T23:55:26","slug":"emotional_intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/07\/18\/emotional_intensity.html","title":{"rendered":"emotional intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/images\/logo.gif\" width=\"111\" height=\"97\" align=\"right\" border=0><\/a>Every time that i spend any time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaginamonologues.com\/bios.htm#EVE%20ENSLER\">Eve Ensler<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/\">V-Day<\/a> folks, i&#8217;m always emotionally overwhelmed.  This time was no different.  Since i was tearing down <a href=\"http:\/\/smg.media.mit.edu\/projects\/ExpressMail\/\">the exhibit<\/a>, i missed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pucl.org\/reports\/gujarat-index.htm\">Gujarat<\/a> press event (systematic raping in India).  But that wasn&#8217;t all of the considerations for the day&#8230; During the evening, we got to think deeply about the issues of rape and violence, through the viewing of video clippings from the opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/index2.cfm?articleID=724\">Safe Place on Native Land<\/a> and the creation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/index2.cfm?articleID=761\">Safe House in Kenya<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As much as i love working with V-Day, i am constantly overwhelmed by the issues whenever i get in too closely, whenever i have to hear the stories and see the images.  I remember that about producing V-Day events &#8211; it was always hard to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/index2.cfm?ArticleID=17&#038;open=yes\">people&#8217;s horrific stories<\/a>.  Yet, i love helping, i love trying to make it better, trying to make it never happen again.  At the same time, i&#8217;m just not emotionally equipped to always be on the front line.  I&#8217;m so much better at creating the technologies to help people, to work behind the seens.  As much as some people are motivated by the gore, i&#8217;m stunned by it, and become incapable of functioning.  ::sigh:: Still trying to figure out if that&#8217;s a good thing or if it just makes me weak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time that i spend any time with Eve Ensler and the V-Day folks, i&#8217;m always emotionally overwhelmed. This time was no different. Since i was tearing down the exhibit, i missed the Gujarat press event (systematic raping in India). But that wasn&#8217;t all of the considerations for the day&#8230; During the evening, we got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}