Antidotes

Antidotes

What Doesn't Roar

On survival, silence, and the language we carry

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Mar 08, 2026
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I am here to speak about the mother tongue. I woke up this morning and found an entry in my notes that I wrote a year and a half ago after I saw the Afghan women who were singing in their homes in protest:

“If you remove our mouths, we’ll find other ways to sing our stories, and love ourselves in the darkness.”

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