She has been silenced for six years, while he has been giving keynotes.
"I had felt incredibly silenced for many years on my battle, and as I got older that began to manifest in other unhealthy ways," says Labeija. "I have slowly begun to share these parts of me through my work as an artist.
Leonardo Boff was silenced for a year by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) for his book Church, Charisma and Power, which accused the Church hierarchy of abusing their authority and of being out of touch with ordinary Catholics.
"Yet teenagers and women might suffer in silence for years.
"These have included children who have been abducted, trafficked, beaten and threatened after being drawn into a web of sexual violence by promises of love, and others who have suffered in silence for years as they are casually and routinely raped by the boys in their neighbourhoods".
The battle for Mosul is meant to be the final battle in Iraq against ISIS, yet it has opened the floodgates to the very abuses that Baghdad has met with silence for years.
Let's take a lesson from the Papal "announcement," from monks who take vows of silence for years, from mimes, from meditators, from the great silent movies, from animals, from Mother Nature and from the cosmos.
It may sound odd, but learning what I had been battling alone and in silence for years was actually a common illness where people had suffered from the exact same fears, thoughts, images, nightmares that I had made me feel - for the first time in a very long time ― not alone.
"The happenings of 1964 reduced Bahia and Brazil to silence for almost 20 years," Bo Bardi wrote; indeed, the military government closed Bo Bardi's museum almost immediately.
