{"id":1621919,"date":"2026-03-06T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/?p=1621919"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:49:50","slug":"international-womens-day-2026-the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/international-womens-day-2026-the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day 2026: The Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trigger Warning \u2013 Discussion of murder, captivity, torture and state violence against women<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year, on International Women’s Day<\/a>, I wrote about the women of October 7th including Shiri Bibas, Emily Damari, Rachel Goldberg-Polin. I wrote about the silent screams I felt walking through the ruins of Kfar Aza. I wrote because I couldn’t not write. Because silence, I’ve come to believe, is not neutrality. Silence is a choice, and it has consequences. Of course, we are now living in a time when speaking out has consequences too – but people also have to decide which side of history that they want to be on.<\/p>\n

This year, as International Women’s Day 2026 arrives, I find myself returning to the same question that kept me up after October 7th: what happens to women when the world decides their suffering is too complicated to address? What is the price of that silence for them, for us, for everyone who claims to care about women’s rights?<\/p>\n

To answer that question, I want to tell you about a nineteen-year-old girl from Modi’in and revisit October 7th. And I want to tell you about the women of Iran, who have been screaming into the void for decades, long before anyone was listening.<\/p>\n

Noa Marciano<\/h2>\n
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