Be a Voice for the Voiceless

Today, Wednesday, April 18th, a group of Marquette students are staging a silent protest. This is a national event meant to protest anti-lgbtqa violence. This is difficult, to silence one's voice is to silence one's humanity. The voice is inextricably linked to one's humanity. It is locus of one's expression. The focal point of one's identity. Language is the medium through which we can have epistemilogical discourse and can know the world. My delibrate silence echoes the silence imposed upon the LGBTQA community, caused by harassment, prejudice, discrimination and flagrant violence. Think about the voices you are not hearing today. Then think about the voices that you never hear.