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While Los Angeles has issued its stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, a Silver Lake family is using their free time to turn their house into a giant canvas.

To draw attention to sexual assault awareness month, Ali Ferber Peters and her daughters Emilia and Zoe are painting a mural of five women of significance. The mural with a message also features lines from Camille Rainvilles poem, Be a Lady They Said.

The mural will depict Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lupita Nyongo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Thunberg and Oprah Winfrey all wearing masks, spurred by the COVID-19 outbreak, featuring lines from Rainvilles poem.

This month is sexual awareness month and we want to do something to honor that, Zoe, 16, said. I want people to know that they are supported and its OK to talk about their stories.

The idea to paint the mural came to mind about two weeks ago after the family watched a video featuring actress Cynthia Nixon reading Rainvilles poem with a list of unrealistic demands women are told to follow.

Dont be too fat, Nixon reads in the video. Dont be too thin. Dont be too large. Dont be too small. Eat up. Slim down. Stop eating so much. Dont eat too fast. Order a salad. Dont eat carbs. Skip dessert. You need to lose weight. Fit into that dress. Go on a diet. Watch what you eat. Eat celery. Chew gum. Drink lots of water. You have to fit into those jeans. God, you look like a skeleton. Why dont you just eat?

The video gained thousands of views since it has been released earlier this year.

My girls and I each reacted to a different line from the poem, said Ferber Peters, 52. It was the seed of the idea.

About one in five women has been sexually assaulted or experienced an attempted rape at some point while one in four reported being beaten by an intimate partner, according to a recent government survey, emphasizing that the violence against remains pandemic in the U.S.

Ferber Peters said she had been thinking about the women who are forced to stay home where they dont feel safe during the virus outbreak.

She added that during the time of a hearing on a sexual assault allegation against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh back in 2018, her lifelong friend called her and said that they had been raped.

They have never shared that with me before and it blew my mind, she said. I realized from their experience, and also from many other young women that I met, that an assault changes the trajectory of a persons life. Theres so much shame around it. And we believe that through conversation and shining light, thats how one moves forward.

With her sister Amy Ferber, Ferber Peters created a business last year Shes Birdie with a personal safety alarm designed to protect women.

Emilia, 18, said having a family project in the midst of the pandemic has helped her to connect with her neighbors who often stop by their house to take photos of the mural and offer help.

The family planned to finish their project by Sunday.

And while it has been a challenge to stay home and not be able to go out, Ferber Peters said, being isolated created an opportunity to collaborate with her daughters.

Sometimes I feel like I cant settle, I cant go out and walk around the lake, but since we started this project together, Im already nostalgic about this period being over, Ferber Peters said.

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