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As you may or may not know, I will be speaking at this year's Take Back the Night Rally and March at Kansas State University. Let me start by saying that it has been a long time since I had to speak in public. I do not have stage fright. Not any more. In high school, I signed up for Debate to rid myself of that terror, and it worked. The problem is high school was a decade ago. I am just a little out of practice. My nervousness comes, not from speaking in front of a couple hundred of people, but from the worry that I will seem rusty or unprepared. In short, I need to write this speach soon so I can practice it a few hundred times.

If you are curious, the subject of my speach will be the role in men in relation to Take Back the Night. I want to discuss the perception that men are being excluded from the event and the mindset that men should be able to participate in the march itself. Now I just have to organize my thoughts into something that makes sense.