By: Aaliyah Abrahams Mohamed
There are stories women rarely tell aloud. They settle into the body long before we find the words. These stories shape lives, even when unspoken – sometimes quietly, sometimes with deep pain.
Across communities in South Africa, women carry truths they were never allowed to express. Silence is not weakness.
Often, it is strategy. Some women speak softly, not from lack of power, but because raising their voices does not always guarantee safety. Some move like shadows: careful, measured, alert. Beneath this caution exists a steady, almost invisible strength.
This strength does not roar. It survives. It builds. It endures.
In many South African contexts, women’s experiences are easily minimized: a bruise can be dismissed as an accident, a cry for help labeled a “phase.”
Silence becomes a necessity. And yet, women continue to rise. They raise children, maintain families, and rebuild themselves from pieces no one realized were broken.
Strength, though, should not always be born from suffering. Women deserve spaces where endurance is not a requirement, where their value is not measured by how much they can carry alone.
As a writer, I see the importance of sharing these experiences – not as tragedies, but as testaments. Testaments to resilience, complexity, and humanity. When women speak, they do more than break silence; they break cycles.
Perhaps this is the quiet revolution our communities need : one story at a time, honestly told, so that another woman somewhere feels less alone.
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There are stories women rarely tell aloud.
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