speakout

See also: speak out

English

Etymology

Deverbal from speak out.

Noun

speakout (plural speakouts)

1. A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.
   • 1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 13:

     Sui Wai Anderson, a pianist and songwriter, performed two original compositions and preceded a speak-out by two women who gave personal accounts of illegal abortions they obtained before the 1973 Supreme Court decision.

   • 2002, The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding, →ISBN:

     What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:speakout.

Related terms

• speak out

Anagrams

• outspake, outspeak