This Was Never for Your Comfort — I Was Writing the Report

A testimony for every woman. A record they were never meant to survive.

This Is a Record, Not a Request

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This is not a safe space.

It was never supposed to be.

This is not a confession.

This is not a warning.

This is a record.

A live document.

A testimony made without consent

from the systems that demanded our silence.

A list of names carved in breath, in blood,

and written back into history

by the women they tried to misname, erase, sterilize, deport, or quietly forget.

We are not explaining.

We are not performing.

We are not softening truth

for the comfort of courts, churches, corporations,

or white academic panels

deciding who counts as “worthy of listening.”

If you’re reading this and feeling exposed?

that’s between you and your reflection.