Episode 8 – The Silence Clause

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Silence is not empty. It’s full.
Full of what we didn’t say, what we weren’t allowed to say, and what we were too afraid to scream.

In this raw and haunting episode of Who Yelling Now, we examine the culture of enforced stillness—how silence is used to protect the powerful and isolate the hurting. From courtroom whispers to the algorithm’s mute button, from childhood secrets to mass media complicity, this is a reckoning with the costs of our collective hush.

We ask:

• When did silence become more dangerous than the truth?

• Who profits when we stay quiet?

• And how many voices must be buried before we admit—we were complicit?

Through piercing poetry and candid reflection, Olga Foreign names the quiet that surrounds predators, the muted outrage of the oppressed, and the silence that sits heavy in the spaces where justice should have thundered.

This is not an episode for the passive listener.
This is an invitation to rupture the quiet, to shatter the decorum that keeps harm in power.

Because silence is never neutral.
And those who break it? They are not the problem.
They are the beginning.