Even if we don’t feel heard, our words can have a wayward effectiveness that works quietly away, unseen but slowly taking shape
Speaking to be heard
Challenging convention
What difference would it make if, instead of being made to suppress part of their nature in order to succeed, women were allowed to bring all of themselves and shape things from there?
Freedom and struggle
Florence Nightingale’s plea for women to be free to suffer resonated because of my experiences and also brought to mind the Judea Capta who fascinated me in the past
Upping the game
While my new-found confidence in my own instincts is appreciated, I’m aware too that more than an individualistic self-help approach is needed if real change is going to take place
Refusing the shame
Student Emma Sulkowicz’s campus protest has rejected the silencing of shame
The passing of an old order?
From Westminster to Hollywood, the status quo is being challenged – we need to focus on alternative ways of being all the more
When ‘why?’ isn’t enough
The discussion around women’s silence need also to include questions about changing a society that doesn’t require that they are listened to
All tomorrow’s parties
What would happen if we walked away, rather than worry about being invited into the party that has well and truly bombed?
Why are you here?
Asking the audience what had brought them to the Royal Festival Hall to see Rebecca Solnit was an interesting question, but answering it in that kind of setting isn’t easy
The road ahead
It feels like a lot of the work of sorting and sifting through the past, making sense of memories has been done. Now it’s time to move on…
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