In 2016, just after President Donald Trump was elected to his first term, a small group of women crowded together in an apartment in Brooklyn. While balancing mugs and sitting crisscross on the floor, they began to share what they had been afraid to say out loud. The practice caught on and, in time, the group expanded, becoming the national community group I Will Not Be Quiet.
You don’t need much to start your I Will Not Be Quiet chapter. You don’t need any training, or even a big group of people. All you need is a few people and a space where you can sit together as a collective.
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