1 Billion Rising For Justice
Navigate Sign Up
  • About
    • What is ONE BILLION RISING?
    • 2025 Campaign
    • MANIFESTA RISINGS
    • GLOBAL IMPACT, GLOBAL REPORTS
    • Rising Revolution Video
    • Global Coordinators
    • DANCE
    • FAQ
  • Rise for Freedom
    • SIGN UP
    • RISE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE AND MOTHER EARTH
    • Rise For and With the Women of Afghanistan
    • RISING SOLIDARITY Blog Series
    • Rising Gardens Poster/Art Exhibit
    • Workers Rising
    • Men Rising
    • Youth Rising
  • EVENTS
    • Find an Event
    • View Past Risings/Events
    • Plan an Event
    • Manage Your Events
  • News & Blog
  • Actions
    • GLOBAL VIDEOS
    • Toolkits
    • Campus Rising Toolkit
    • Media Downloads
    • Store
    • Contact
  • LOGOS & GRAPHICS
  • MUSIC & VIDEOS
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Instagram
Sign Up

This Is What Justice Looks Like

My Revolution: Monologue

By: Anonymous

MY REVOLUTION: MONOLOGUE

(Inspired by a very dear friend who forced me to stop and listen)
My revolution starts today,
by listening to that voice inside of me, getting angrier and
angrier telling me, „you’re nearly 50 years old and you’ve
never been a woman before.“
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the perfect daughter, who didn’t complain, doing what she was asked to do, always staying in the background.
I’ve been the little girl who mastered the art of hiding the hurt behind a smile when everybody forgot about her birthday.
As I grew up, I became the perfect student on the student board, fighting for everybody , not herself.
Than I met my husband. Finally someone who was there for me, I wasn’t the odd one out anymore. It felt good. It felt right.
For a very long time.

The little girl, covering everything with a smile, ignoring the voice screaming inside her, appeared when the woman was woken up in the middle of the night, to fix what didn’t go right during the day,
adapting to a new culture without any pardon,
accepting the judgements about her life, trying to fit in, to change… I became a mother of 2 beautiful kids who adore me.
I took up a teaching job. It made me feel free. I was starting to become my own person, so I told myself. It felt good, the standing ovations at shows, the hugs and gratitude of parents, thanking me for all the compassion I’ve shown towards their kids. With this came more responsibility, because people trusted me and when I go home in the evening, sleeping on my feet, not being able to have a coherent conversation anymore, the grown woman’s voice keep getting stronger, hating the little girl who still hides behind the smile and did everything what is expected of her, without any complains.
Lately I’m a Producer and Writer, doing not less than 3 jobs on a set, feeling really good about myself at the end of a 12hour day when everything happens according to plan.
When I grew ill, someone told me that we all get only one body that we need to listen to.

My Revolution starts now, with the voice of the grown woman getting louder, screaming:“You wander why I’m suddenly making it so hard on you, why I’m sending you to the hospital over and over again, why I’m throwing you into an emotional turmoil of tears and laughter everytime you talk about me?It’s because I want you to listen to me! Stop wandering what went wrong!Just accept me for who I am and let me be the woman I am!!
Feelings have the habit of waking us up. I was 13 years old. Now, strangely enough what makes me catch my breath thinking about this one night, is not the fact that my bedroom door was slowly closed and that I had a strange man looking down at me, it’s that cold feeling inside you, when every nerve goes deadly calm, your voice suddenly miles away and the only thought in your mind is that something is very wrong.

A few weeks ago I had this feeling again. Stronger ! For one second I was in this cold, dark place, where nothing and noone matters anymore, where every nerve in my body went deadly calm. Nothing mattered what I did. It scared me. I ran out of an empty house, to see people, to see colour, to breath. To every woman who think of staying in this place, who are there today, rise, move, put one foot in front of the other, dance. It is time.
Listen to that woman and let her come out.
The Revolution is here.

Flag this content as innappropriate.

  • Website: http://www.thecentreseries.com
  • Social Media: http://www.thecentreseries.com http://www.facebook.com/naomi.beukesmeyer https://twitter.com/namiwel
  Previous Post
  Next Post
Previous Post  
Next Post  

Share your Story

  • Follow Us on Facebook

  • Facebook.com/vday
  • Follow Us On Twitter

  • @VDAY
  • Follow Us On Instagram

  • @one_billion_rising
  • Bookmark and Share
About
  • What is ONE BILLION RISING?
  • 2025 Campaign
  • MANIFESTA RISINGS
  • Global Impact, Global Reports
  • Rising Revolution Video
  • Global Coordinators
  • DANCE
  • FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
Rise For Freedom
  • Sign Up
  • Workers Rising
  • RISE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE AND MOTHER EARTH
  • Men Rising
  • Youth Rising
  • RISING SOLIDARITY Blog Series
Events
  • Find an Event
  • Plan an Event
  • View Past Risings/Events
Actions
  • GLOBAL VIDEOS
  • Toolkits
  • Campus Rising Toolkit
  • Media Downloads
  • Store
  • Contact
Links
  • V-Day Website
  • Donate
Join The Rising
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Instagram

Copyright: 1 Billion Rising
All Rights Reserved. 2025
Design: Viva & Co.
Manage Consent
We use cookies to give you the best experience on our site. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.  
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}