🚫 You Can Be in a Movement—and Still Be Submissive

Photo by Quan Nguyen

Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get said enough:

Just because you’re in a space that calls itself progressive
or radical, or revolutionary…
doesn’t mean you aren’t still being conditioned to be meek, agreeable, and submissive.

Some women believe they’ve escaped obedience because they’re no longer in church, or no longer listening to their elders, or no longer subscribing to traditional roles.

But the truth is:

• You can be in a feminist space and still silence yourself for male approval.

• You can be in a social justice movement and still be discouraged from setting boundaries with men.

• You can be applauded for your “power” while being quietly expected to defer, submit, and not disrupt the order of things.

🔍 Ask yourself:

• Do I feel safer when I go along with the loudest voices in the room?

• Am I still praised when I question the men in this space—or only when I support them?

• Have I traded one kind of submission for another, just dressed in different language?

• Do I feel pressure to be agreeable even when something feels off?

Being part of a movement doesn’t automatically make you empowered.
Your freedom is not proven by your affiliations.
It’s proven by your ability to speak the truth, make choices, and question power—even when it’s unpopular.

🌀 Survivor Affirmation:
“She left the cage.
But the silence still followed her.
Until one day she turned around and said—
No more.”

📣 Belonging should never cost your voice.
Solidarity should never require submission.
And no movement is truly liberating if it punishes women for standing up, speaking out, or stepping away.

💬 Affirmations: I Belong to My Voice, Not Their Approval

1. I do not need to perform submission to be accepted.

2. I can be part of something bigger without disappearing inside it.

3. My questions are not a threat—they are a sign of my awakening.

4. Agreement is not the price of belonging.

5. If my voice must be silenced to keep peace, then it is not peace—it is performance.

6. I release the fear of being called difficult for standing in truth.

7. My loyalty is not to a movement—it is to my wholeness.

8. I am allowed to speak even when it disrupts comfort.

9. I do not owe anyone quiet compliance for the sake of unity.

10. I walk in alignment with truth, not trends, titles, or approval.