What Women Already Know

In the opening minutes of CLAIM, we ask women to talk about their relationship with authority. Not the theory of it — but the felt, lived, shaped-over-decades kind. The kind that sits in your body long before it shows up on a resume.

There’s usually a long pause. And then the stories come.

Stories about being told they were too much. Or not enough. Stories about staying quiet in rooms where they knew what was missing. Stories about succeeding while feeling like they had to leave parts of themselves outside the door.

None of this is new. These are not insights women are hearing for the first time. What shifts — and this is the power of CLAIM — is that they’re saying them out loud, in community, without having to explain or defend.

The point of CLAIM isn’t to give women something they don’t already have. It’s to create space where what they know, carry, and question can be named. So they can work with it. Move through it. Reclaim what was never really lost, only quieted.