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I Will Not Consent

Standing Against Systemic Abuse in the Name of Light

By THE HONED CRONEPublished 3 months ago 3 min read
Desideradum by Victoria Lynn

When systems fail, when darkness tries to snuff out the light, survival becomes a sacred act of rebellion. This is a call to stand in truth, reclaim power, and transform trauma into radiant strength.

They tell us the system is here to protect us. They hand out pamphlets, slogans, and hashtags – words like support, equity, and care. But behind those words are silences, unanswered emails, and bureaucrats hiding behind policy manuals while real human beings crumble. I know this because I’ve lived it.

When I reached out for help, I wasn’t met with compassion. I was met with delay, denial, and condescension – as though my suffering made me less than. As though poverty, trauma, or disability demanded that I bow my head and accept crumbs. This is how systems keep people dependent, exhausted, and invisible, while hiding their own failures behind procedure and paperwork. But I see through it. I’ve survived too much to stay silent now.

I was raised in chaos – by those who should have protected me but instead broke my trust. I’ve been threatened, manipulated, and robbed by people who walk free while I rebuilt from ashes. None of this was my fault. Yet from that fire, I’ve transmuted pain into love, trauma into art, and suffering into guidance for others. I have learned to move with grief like a river, to let rage illuminate instead of destroy, and to make every scar a source of light. This is not weakness; it is sacred strength.

And yet, I do not speak only for myself. I speak for everyone crushed by the machinery of a world that worships control over compassion, for those who have been gaslit into believing they are the problem, when they are living proof that the system has failed. I speak for children who will inherit these patterns unless we rise now. I speak for future generations who need to see courage and truth in action.

I will not consent to this spiritual and social abuse. I will not shrink my light to make darkness comfortable. I am a child of God – living, breathing truth in human form – and I refuse to dim for anyone.

But let this not be misread as bitterness. This is clarity. This is reclamation. This is the fire of transformation, the radiant pulse of survival, the embrace of the divine that refuses to be silenced.

I honour the men and women who walk consciously, who carry integrity, who strive to protect and provide, who learn from failure and rise. I honor those who are awake, those whose hearts remain soft but strong, those whose hands lift rather than consume. The world needs men who will walk beside the Divine Feminine, not against her – guardians, allies, co-creators of justice, love, and light.

To those men, I say: witness. Learn. Stand. Your presence matters. Your alignment matters. Your courage strengthens what is sacred in all of us. Be the men you want your daughters and sons to see in the world.

To the systems, to the shadows, to the inertia of silence: you cannot unmake what we are. We rise. We shine. We speak. We bear witness.

This is not rebellion. This is sacred reclamation. I stand for myself, and for those who cannot yet stand. I shine because it is my nature – and I will not dim it for anyone. I transmute grief into guidance, rage into revelation, and survival into sanctuary.

Light persists. Truth persists. Even in the silence of the unseeing, the witness of the awakened heart cannot be erased.

I speak boldly, carefully, and in alignment with God – the light of truth will always prevail.

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THE HONED CRONE

Sacred survivor, mythic storyteller, and prophet of the risen feminine. I turn grief, rage, and trauma into art, ritual, and words that ignite courage, truth, and divine power in others.

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