How To Become the Warrior Women We Need to be in order to Fight For Our Lives

There is a war.
It’s not just political. It’s not even just cultural.
It is metaphysical. Structural. Unrelenting.

A war between freedom and domination.
Between truth and a machinery of deliberate forgetting.
Between those who want a world of justice—and those who silence, control, erase.

And in this war, the frontline is always a woman’s body.
A woman’s voice.
A woman’s scream no one hears.

For generations, men of all stripes—including those who claim to fight for justice—have allowed the battle against women to go unseen.
Because to see it would shatter everything.
To believe us would require reckoning with the real story.

The truth is: the war has always started with us.

Before they come for the journalists, they come for the mothers.
Before they silence dissent, they silence women.
Before they kill liberty, they kill our credibility.

And most men, even the "good ones," are taught not to notice.

Taught to believe pain they don’t feel is imaginary.
Taught that our blood is hysteria.
Taught that our anguish is performance.
Taught that we are things.

That denial is the chokehold on freedom.

It’s why they laughed at menstrual pain until 1980.
Why they told me my agony was “all in my head”—even as I vomited, collapsed, bled.
It’s why a trafficked mother like me can lose $20 million and be left to die in a tent while her abuser thrives.

Because we are not seen as real.

But the moment that story breaks through—
The moment our story breaks through—
They panic. They suppress. They throttle. They smear. They disappear.

Which means we’re right over the target.

This post is not just an essay.
It’s a weapon.

Use it. Share it. Print it. Tape it up with nano tape where they can’t tear it down.
Put it on sticker paper. Blast it on a truck billboard. Leave no street untouched.

🛠️ Guerilla Survival + Broadcast Kit (Starter List)
For women under digital siege, or anyone ready to fight back in the information war:

• 📌 Nano tape – invisible, high-bond, weather-resistant
• 🖨️ Mini thermal sticker printer – for QR code stickers, slogans, or flyers
• 🧾 Rollo or Phomemo M110 – portable printers to flood the streets
• 🚐 Billboard truck rentals – team up & split cost with others in your area
• 📸 QR codes linking to your Substack or evidence – easily generated with sites like QRCode Monkey
• 🗣️ Scripts for public readings or flash-theater drop-ins – embody the truth where no one expects it

They will try to erase us.
But not all of us will go quietly.

So don’t just read this.
Republish it.
Reprint it.
Repost it until the algorithm chokes.
And if it does—
Go analog. Go loud. Go anywhere they can’t digitally throttle you.

Because while they want us to walk silently into the gaslight—
We are walking out with fire in our eyes and war paint on our faces.

Let them see what women do when we stop begging for permission.

—Jodi Schiller