Ebony Stewart doing spoken word about her father and her mother and childhood from an adult perspective.
Ebony Stewart doing spoken word about adverse childhood experiences and adverse community experiences as lived.
Ebony Stewart speaking about speaking up and silence and using her voice and the experience of being threatened and silenced.
Too often, when we talk about ACEs we aren't speaking in first person or about the complexity of real-life experiences.
Often, we're speaking in general terms about concepts, studies and statistics , which is important.
Often we forget to include how those studies and stats impact people before, during and after they are being lived, in real time and when surviving didn't ACEs doesn't end even though childhood did.
What I love about spoken word poetry is how it is honest and complex and can get at a whole story which isn't always linear or logical. It can help us understand our own experiences and the experiences of others more fully - whether we have or have not lived the same experience.
The stories and voices always help me understand how statistic and studies feel.
Each one is powerful. Hearing them all together is even more powerful.
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