Amber Amour

Amber Amour is the CEO & Founder of Rising Minds Foundation and is an activist who uses creativity to unite and inspire change. She is a playwright, poet, director, actress, producer, and songwriter who uses her eloquence to address important issues in society. Thus far her works have addressed homelessness, women's rights, LGBTQ issues, family dynamics, human sexuality, domestic violence among an array of various other topics. For more information about Amber Amour, follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/loveamberamour and on Instagram @amberinternational

Posts Written by Amber

Reporting Rape: My Personal Experience

*trigger warning*

Two weeks ago today, I was raped. For the third time in my life. The first time I was raped, I was barely a teenager. The second time, was on my 17th birthday. Rape can drive a woman to do crazy things. After the first two times I was raped, I attempted suicide countless times, drowned my sorrow with booze, pills, and drugs, and substituted promiscuity for love, often confusing the two. I had my first real relationship when I was 18, which was the first time I experienced true love. I gained a newfound respect for myself but fell back into my old ways of sleeping around and partying when we broke up two years later. Somewhere between ...

*trigger warning*

Two weeks ago today, I was raped. For the third time in my life. The first time I was raped, I was barely a teenager. The second time, was on my 17th birthday. Rape can drive ...

The Human Buffet: A Poem About Rape

The truth is,

Is that I was awake.

It was my seventeenth birthday

And I didn’t even have cake.

 

The truth is,

Is that I was awake.

As you listened for a snore,

As you dreamt of your whore.

 

The truth is,

Is that I was awake.

I felt that touch

I felt that rub

I felt death running through your blood.

 

There she lay

The human buffet!

With every touch

Her soul slips away.

 

Let’s be honest

I’ll say it out loud:

You raped me.

Don’t you dare be proud!

 

Far from sleep

Frozen with terror

Getting caught redhanded

Was your fatal error.

 

“She’s passed out

Now I can go for the gold!

I wonder how much of my semen

Her sleeping mouth can hold?”

 

No shame about it

You whip it out

You take my head in your hands

And you put your d*ck in my mouth.

 

The truth is,

Is that ...

The truth is,

Is that I was awake.

It was my seventeenth birthday

And I didn’t even have cake.

 

The truth is,

Is that I was awake.

As you listened for a snore,

As you dreamt of your whore.

 

The truth is,

Is that I was ...

Happiness & Healing Day in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month

On April 11, 2014 in New York City, the Rising Minds Foundation presented Happiness & Healing Day, an empowering and uplifting event in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month created to strengthen and encourage survivors of sexual abuse.

Happiness & Healing Day featured a performances by Stephanie Foltz, Zoe Becker, Ebony Warner, Gabriel Gitman, and the Rising Minds Foundation CEO & Founder, Amber Amour. They presented Eve Ensler’s empowering poem entitled, “My Short Skirt,” along with poetic monologues written by Maya Angelou and Ebony Warner.

On April 11, 2014 in New York City, the Rising Minds Foundation presented Happiness & Healing Day, an empowering and uplifting event in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month created to strengthen and encourage survivors of sexual abuse.

Happiness ...