#Quiet Resistance

Peace as Resistance in an Attention Economy

The quote reframes peace as something more muscular than calmness: it becomes an act of refusal. In a culture that prizes speed, reaction, and perpetual engagement, choosing inner steadiness challenges the default expect...

Kindness as Courage in an Outrage Economy

At first glance, the world equates boldness with volume: the fastest take, the sharpest clapback. Yet Lorde’s line invites a counterintuitive move: to answer noise with humane clarity.

Insistence Turns Silence Into Mountains of Change

To begin, Lorde’s line distills her lifelong argument that voice is a survival tactic. In “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (Sister Outsider, 1984), she writes that our silences will not protect us...