As women like Laura were being subjected to various forms of persecution, they were keeping notes. People watching were keeping notes. So the next wave of uncomfortable reading for the history deniers is going to be more material like this hitting the permanent record.
As women like Laura were being subjected to various forms of persecution, they were keeping notes. People watching were keeping notes. So the next wave of uncomfortable reading for the history deniers is going to be more material like this hitting the permanent record.
It makes me realise how important literacy is. In those places and times where education has been especially denied to girls, women are doubly persecuted, by their treatment, and by the attempt to ensure they can never make a record of it that can be shared, and lasts.
We are well past that point in our society. I hope (despite having a lot of my fundamental certainties shaken lately) this one is safe. Everyone who has a story about their experience here should write it down now, while it's fresh in their mind (and phones and laptops).
Because at some point you may get a chance to tell it. And because for centuries and centuries, and still across the world, so many people did not have that possibility. Treasure the power of being able to read and write.