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A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape..
Sui Wai Anderson, a pianist and songwriter, performed two original compositions and preceded a speak-out by two women who gave personal accounts of illegal abortions they obtained before the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout.
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Speak out means A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape..
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Sui Wai Anderson, a pianist and songwriter, performed two original compositions and preceded a speak-out by two women who gave personal accounts of illegal abortions they obtained before the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
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