Your rage is not the enemy. Patriarchy is. Your rage is not ugly. The consequences of patriarchy are. Your rage is not dangerous. Patriarchy is the true killer of humankind. And it is quite possible your rage can save us.

The word virgin, so often misunderstood, does not mean physical purity or the narrow ideal so prized by patriarchal thinking. The Maiden’s virginity speaks to sovereignty. To independence. To being wholly one’s own. No one rules Her.

One of the most damaging lies of this system is the claim that we are powerless to change the course. That our only options are numbness, outrage, or resignation. Grief, when suppressed, keeps that lie intact. But grief, when entered consciously, dismantles it. When we truly sink into our grief, when we give it voice, energy, and shape, something unexpected happens. Grief turns us toward what we love. It reconnects us to values that cannot be commodified or controlled.