speakout

plural speakouts

1. A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.

   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.

   2002, The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding, →ISBN

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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.

   1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 13