When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection. Yo
When women stop listening to other women about safety—when you say, “That never happens,” or “Who cares?”—you hand over our collective protection.
You turn the volume down on our warnings, our lived experiences, our patterns of survival. Our knowing.
When you dismiss another woman’s concern about her body, her health, her boundaries, or her right to breathe safely in public spaces, you aren’t being neutral.
You’re siding with the silence that keeps us unsafe.
Every time one of us has to explain to the world why women need safety, privacy, rest, and respect, we pay for that explanation in energy, time, and spirit.
And when that moment comes for you—when the danger walks your way, when the world looks right past your humanity—you’ll remember that you, too, are a woman.
The men never forgot that.
They see it. They count on it.
It’s some of us who forget until the moment the world reminds us in the harshest way possible.
This isn’t a fight against each other.
It’s a call to remember that our survival is intertwined.
When one of us sounds the alarm, it’s not hysteria. It’s heritage.
It’s the wisdom of every woman who saw the danger first and tried to warn the rest.
🔥 Radical Womanist Flame:
Listen to her when she says she doesn’t feel safe.
Honor her when she says, “This policy could harm us.”
Because what happens to her body, her peace, her dignity—moves closer to yours with every silence.
The flame is not to burn each other.
The flame is to light the path—
so none of us are left in the dark pretending danger is imagination.