Sing your joy, voice your anger and break the system
ROAR Magazine
▻https://roarmag.org/essays/international-day-women-break-silence
March 8, 2015
On March 8, women across the world march, rise up and fight back against rape, abuse, oppression and humiliation — to break the silence and be free.
Author Cagla Aykac
And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable, is also the source of our greatest strength. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in sour safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.
Audre Lorde, Transformation of Silence