No to Date Rape

No to Date Rape

Tribute to Womanhood

A second Collaboration with Anthea and Reynaldo.

No to Date Rape is 19th Painting of our Tribute to Womanhood Series of 40 paintings/drawings/poem collaboration, and the nineth in our mini series Woman in Relation to Man.

For the next one uploads we will be looking at women in relation to their men from many different perspectives. Even if a man is not present in the painting we will depict the woman’s feelings for and towards her man.

It is such a great honour and pleasure to work with Reynaldo on this Collaboration as he is a brilliant and highly gifted inspirational painter and beautiful human being.

Painting: Reynaldo
Poem: Anthea

No is No

No is not yes
No is not sort of
No is not kind of
No is not maybe…

No to mind games that devastate sensitive brains
No to power that intimidates tender hearts
No to subtext that does not equate real text
No to premediatated cruelty that attacks self esteem
No to dishonesty that disturbs pure minds
No to manipulation that hurts our souls
No to love bombing, where abundant love shifts to deprivation
No to pushing through boundaries that are never meant to be broken
No to sadistic enjoyment of others misfortune
No to words that will never be action
No to betrayal that leads to deep wounds
No to abandonment where ones security is erased
No to rejection that should ever be an option
No to lies that deceive and torment us
No to lack of decency and honour
No to black and white thinking that limits our minds
No to judgemental attitudes that bleed our imagination dry
No to undermining sentences that crack our confidence
No to praying on the innocent
No to sexualising children
No to disrespecting our aged
No to exploiting our vulnerable
No to snobbery that alientates and divides

No is not a joke
No is not a laugh
No is not to be taken lightly
No is not an invitation
No is not a temptation
No is not a seduction
No is not a revelation
No is not a suggestion

No is an answer
No is to be respected
No is a protection
No is given for a reason
No is fullstop.
No is The End.
No to Date Rape.
No is No.
That is all.

By Anthea Slade

Specifications of Rey’s beautiful painting

2009 Acrylic on 140 lb. Watercolour paper 24×18”

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