What happens when you’re silenced?

Let me ask a question that I honestly don’t know the answer to.

What happens when you get the courage to #resist and then you’re silenced?

Good question, right?

This actually happened to someone I know. The story is much too personal to her to go into  details, but I want you to understand the frustration and anger to such an event. Long story short, an artist and art teacher made a piece for a showcase at her school. All types of people–administrators, peers, students, public and donors–would have been able to view not only her artistic expression and hard work, but her voice, too. Her voice, views, and–personal protest.

Unbeknownst to her, the art piece was pulled from the gallery. A dialogue was not offered by a committee that made this decision. Later, she was able to speak her piece and fight for her rights to one individual, but still, the answer was something like, “Sorry, I understand how you feel.” The end result was still no.