"Several women in the dojo posted a manifesto in the dressing room and asked the other women to please sign the pledge: 'I promise that should anyone ever attack me and try to rape me, I will always fight back with everything that I have, even if it means a fight to my death.' As though our martyrdom will be remembered and hailed in the future, our faces commemorated on postage stamps, and our sacrifice observed annually with large wreaths of white flowers. Because not fighting to the death marks you for life as some kind of traitor. I watched as students left the dressing room taller by a foot after making a promise to one another to never be me."
~ Stephanie Clare Smith
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