We Are Golden ©Dawn Minott | closing Women’s History Month 2025

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry

We are whole—
Strong. Unshaken.
Shaped by history’s hands, fired in the kiln of time.
But when the weight of patriarchy pressed too hard—
Cracks appeared.

What does the world do with women it tries to break?
It tries to—

Dismiss them.
Silence them.
Bury them.

They say once something fractures,
it can never be the same again.
That the scars will always tell a story
of loss, of defeat,
of what can never be reclaimed.

But they are wrong.

Because struggle is not the end.
The fight is part of the becoming.

Kintsugi—golden repair—
Not to erase the cracks,
Not to hide our place in HIS-story,
but to illuminate our legacy—
our resistance, our resilience, our power.
To honor our voices.
To make them art.

So let us treat our pain that way.
Let every crack of injustice,
every fracture of oppression,
every attempt to silence us
be transformed—not hidden, but held.

What if…
our wounds weren’t wounds at all,
but spaces waiting to be filled with something precious?

What if…
our struggle wasn’t our ruin,
but our revolution?

What if we take this pain,
these centuries of resistance,
this history soaked in defiance,
and forge something new?

What if like seeds, we grow
Piercing through, defying the -isms of oppression

What if we melt down discrimination into gold,
pour it into the cracks,
and let it bind us together—
not in spite of our struggle, but because of it?

We do not bow.
We do not break.
We rise.

We are not just survivors.
We are warriors.
We are visionaries.
We are unstoppable.

Let the world see us.
Let the world know—

We are golden.

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In creative solidarity, Dee

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