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Jacqueline S. Homan
"Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle." ~ Dante Aligheri (Purgatorio, VI, 37)
About Me
- Jacqueline S. Homan
- Erie, PA, United States
- I first began writing in 2006 during a long fruitless job search as a middle-aged woman trying to re-enter the workforce with my Bachelor’s degree in mathematics. There was no funding available to me to pay for law school so that I could have become a human rights lawyer like I had always wanted. I began writing about the injustices of poverty due to discrimination and the power dynamics of privilege. Few are willing to acknowledge that their comforts, social status, and privileges were paid for by the social and economic deprivation suffered by others. The exclusion and deprivation endured by the poorest and most marginalized women—those from the underclass of the underclass whom society discarded into the prostitute class—paid for everybody else’s comforts, opportunities, status and privileges. Having hidden from the men who trafficked me for 27 ½ years; only a tiny few people knew about my “past.” But many others guessed about it—it’s difficult to explain the unexplainable gaps of one’s life spanning from age 13 to age 17 only to be judged, stigmatized and punished by society else for what others have done to you. Read more here: http://withoutapology.org/about/