So I want you to picture something.

It's iron and it fits over a woman's head like a cage.

And inside there's a metal plate that presses down on her tongue.

And if she tries to talk, it hurts.

And it's called a scolds bridle.

And for over two centuries in Britain, it was a very normal legal punishment, not for stealing or for violence, but for talking.

And it was for a woman who argued or gossiped or answered back.

so powerful thank you for sharing that would you say that that is the thing that you wish more women knew about their voices the power that it holds for the collective