Why Are You Choosing to Stay Deaf?

When the truth is this deafening —
when women are being massacred across the country,
when the evidence is everywhere —

why are you choosing to stay deaf?

Because let’s be clear:

Silence is not neutral.
Silence is complicity.
Silence is engineered.
And silence is chosen.

Every day women and children are tortured, disappeared, erased.
And every day, most of America scrolls by like nothing is happening.

If you’re silent, you’re siding with the killers.
If you’re silent, you’re helping them get away with it.

If you enforce silence — you are murdering women.

Not metaphorically.
Not symbolically.
Literally.

Every time women are gagged, erased, throttled, disappeared —
more women die.

Silence kills.
Enforced silence is murder.

I’m not silent.

I’ve been kidnapped.
Tortured.
Erased.
Sexually humiliated.
Starved.
Attacked.

Jailed.
Brutalized.
Stolen from.
Totally isolated.
Homeless.

All because I’m right:
women and children are being tortured and killed every day
in a Hidden Holocaust in America.

And I’m a fucking human being.

I’m not silent.
Even if I am killed now, my words will ring on after me.

I’m not silent.
So why are you?

• silence
• complicity
• violence against women
• hidden holocaust
• genocide
• patriarchy
• erasure
• truth
• testimony
• resistance