So if there's anyone in my situation, I’d say focus on yourself – use all of that energy in trying to position yourself in the world where you are actually a survivor, where you understand the dynamics. Heal as much as you can, take your time. You can support other survivors, you can be part of the collective force, you can march with us in the streets, you can join and volunteer, you can do all of that while still doing the healing that you need to do.

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People can erase notes that you write to people, books can be burned down, feminist spaces can be burned down or erased, laws can be made, all of that can happen. But there is this unspoken sense of feminist resistance that I find so much hope in because it survives all cultures, all dynamics, from the educated to the uneducated and between all genders. It just happens – the kind of feminist transference that happened from my grandmother to my mother and from my mother to me. Maybe we can call it the ancestral spirit of feminism.

Toufah Jallow, “The secret is not yours” — the woman behind an African #MeToo movement, Toufah Jallow's suvivor-led revolution in The Gambia, IMPACT, Les Glorieuses, 11.20.2023