When I tell you it’s a cult. When I tell you it’s like the mafia. This is what I mean. A mother threatens to kill her daughter over a piece of cloth, and I am the shameful one for mentioning it. They want us to keep silent and hide the tyranny even as our throats are being split. 
I spoke to a woman in Jordan whose father threw her out a window and her family convinced her to tell the doctors she fell so that her father wouldn’t be in trouble.
And she did.
And she did.
This is how we are taught to deny our agency. This is how we are taught that we are subordinate things. This is how we are seen and this is how we, in turn, see ourselves. We minimize and diminish ourselves to uphold the family honor and hide the dirty laundry at all costs.
This is me w the dirty laundry I hid for you for so long 🍾
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