As part of The Pixel Project’s Read For Pixels campaign, we interview authors and poets from genres as diverse as Science Fiction and Fantasy to Romance to Horror about why they support the movement to end violence against women and girls.
For Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2025, we present an interview with Read For Pixels poet Christina Sng who contributed her original poem Better to our 1st charity poetry collection, UNDER HER EYE. Christina is the three-time Bram Stoker Award® and Elgin Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, A Collection of Dreamscapes, and The Gravity of Existence. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, New Myths, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post.
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1. Why is ending violence against women important to you and why did you decide to support The Pixel Project by contributing your poem Better to UNDER HER EYE which is The Pixel Project’s first charity poetry collection published in partnership with Black Spot Books?
Ending violence against women is important to me because no woman should have to experience it. I greatly admire what The Pixel Project does, and Better is my small way of contributing to this great cause.
2. What do you think poets can do to help with the cultural change needed to stop violence against women and girls?
We are all but grains of sand on the beach but the beach is made of sand. Each grain may seem insignificant but put them all together and we have created land.
Each time we speak out and touch another person, we have made a difference. Each poem we write and share can slowly change society’s mindset about women.
It is a slow and arduous process, but perhaps one day when enough voices have spoken and enough hearts are touched, violence against women will be eradicated.
3. Any final thoughts about why everyone should support stopping violence against women?
Everyone should support the ending of violence against women because violence against women destroys the lives of women, their children, and the very fabric of society of which women are a fundamental part.