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"We struggle for safety, liberation and OK Danger; a world where we are supported to take risks and live dangerously. We want a world where we can dance outrageously, hitchhike across the country, confront and challenge authority, do sex work, indulge in the touch of a stranger, make ourselves vulnerable to a lover, swim naked, leave the doors unlocked, trust another to babysit our children, sleep soundly next to whoever we choose, wake up alive. We deserve this all. Our actions are then shaped by dreams for better worlds and for personal and collective liberation. We realise that building for a world without [violence and] sexual assault must be tied to our dreams for social change and libratory practices, or else ‘safety’ became isolation, fear, and withdrawal from society. Locked inside physical or emotional walls, we may never suffer abuse at the hand of another, but neither will we experience the rush of arriving in a new city after hitchhiking alone to see your lover, or dancing shirts off surrounded by fiery friends, or swimming alone under the starlit sky. We want to feel alive. We want to support one another to grow. We want to stay real. We want to relax into the consensual touch of another in reclaimed spaces and whisper ok danger, ok danger, ok danger." — from "OK Danger: Community Defence" in A World without Sexual Assault [zine].

Installation by: Mina Zlatoper
Performance: caner teker