Silence That’s what you called me… then you slapped the curse across my mouth. The bruises of your violations clung to my body, my mind – they haunted me, made me fall into the void. I became a thing of sickness, a vessel of loathing… Putting a plaster on all the sepsis unhelpful like aContinue reading “We Will Not Be Silenced – Hanlie Robbertse”
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We Will Not Be Silenced – John W. Leys
I will not be silent. I will not be afraid. I will not sacrifice myself again, I will not turn the other cheek. I will speak the truth —not my truth, the truth— Not all things are subjective, Not all causes are just. I do not want to fight, But I swear on my swordContinue reading “We Will Not Be Silenced – John W. Leys”
A letter to men – Georgiann Carlson
We are the wild ones The ones you fear We are the nightmares That haunt your dreams The ones who threaten Your power We are the free spirits You can not kill No matter how many times you try We know you We know what you’ve done We see your greed We see your hungerContinue reading “A letter to men – Georgiann Carlson”
We Will Not Be Silenced – Lynn White
We found a gap in the wire. Someone had made it, that gaping hole in the wire, hoping to climb through, hoping to head towards the light, to leave the darkness behind, to escape the madness here, hoping, hoping. But the light became too bright. And now it’s blinding us. We can see less thanContinue reading “We Will Not Be Silenced – Lynn White”
We Will Not Be Silenced – Georgiann Carlson
Men believe they can control and silence women through violence and unjust laws but the bodies of dead women continue to speak to us even when they can no longer form words of protest even when their hearts are no longer beating even as their blood pools on filthy basement floors they speak this is whatContinue reading “We Will Not Be Silenced – Georgiann Carlson”
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