Woman Scream

Maria Montessori: The Scream of a Woman Exiled for Peace

Many know her method, but few know her story of resistance. Maria Montessori did not only transform classrooms; she was a woman who chose exile rather than allow the fascism of Benito Mussolini to indoctrinate children.

Her life became a constant journey across borders. She fled from Italy to Spain, sought refuge in the Netherlands, and was eventually detained in India during World War II as an enemy alien. It was in that forced exile, far from her homeland and under restriction, that Montessori realized true freedom begins in the mind of a child raised without chains.

Maria Montessori proved that geographic borders cannot stop a powerful idea. She transformed her solitude as an immigrant into a universal gift: an education that recognizes no flags.

Today, her scream lives on in every woman who crosses a border seeking a dignified future for her children. Because educating for peace is the greatest act of rebellion.

Many women have changed the course of history, and yes, many of them are or have been immigrants.

Join our cause.

Your voice is the engine of change. Follow us to discover more stories of women who broke barriers and support our mission to make women’s talent and resilience visible beyond borders.

Visit us at: www.womanscream.com

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This Valentine’s Day, don’t wait for someone to come save you.

Celebrate yourself, hold yourself, and remember everything you’ve survived. Self-love is also resistance. It’s setting boundaries, choosing yourself after exhaustion, and learning to look at yourself with tenderness again.

Today, at Woman Scream, we honor women who became their own home, their first yes, their most faithful embrace.

We celebrate you, your strength, your story, and that heart that keeps beating no matter what.

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Perth Woman Scream 2026 is coming. Our annual spoken-word gathering connects Perth with the global Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) movement, using poetry and art to raise our voices against violence and to stand with women and girls around the world.

This year’s theme, Beyond Boundaries, centers migrant women and girls and the realities they face when far from home. When language, money, and support systems fall away, being heard becomes harder. That’s why we keep choosing poetry to SCREAM, because silence gives violence room to breathe.

Join us on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at The Moon Cafe in Northbridge, for an afternoon of powerful voices, connection, and collective resistance. Free entry, open to all.

Featuring

Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Abigail Sherratt

Sari Bennett

Jane Hammond

Jo Giles

Joni Boyd

Ana Brawls

Program Coordinator: Manveen Kohli

Presented by

WA Poets Inc

Starick Domestic Violence Support Services

Perth Poetry Club

Learn more about the global movement at http://www.WomanScream.com

Together, we rise. Together, we scream.

Renee Nicole Good spoke of a violence that does not scream. It happens quietly, in classrooms, in routines, in the way we are taught to look without feeling.

In her poem “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” winner of the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize at Old Dominion University, she wrote about the moment when wonder is stripped away, when a life is reduced to parts on a tray, and curiosity is separated from compassion. Her words speak to growing up in a world that often asks us to disconnect in order to learn, to analyze without tenderness, to accept quiet harm as normal.

For Woman Scream 2026, this poem echoes our cause of living “Beyond Boundaries”: questioning the limits imposed on empathy, refusing systems that normalize emotional numbness, and reclaiming a way of seeing that honors life, care, and humanity. Because crossing boundaries should never mean losing the ability to feel.

We are voice. We are Scream.

Join us at www.womanscream.com

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Malala Yousafzai is one of those names that keep shining even when the world tries to dim their light. A girl who refused silence, who survived fear and violence because her voice understood it had a purpose greater than pain.

She migrated from Pakistan to the United Kingdom carrying the wound, the exile, but also a truth no border can stop: the right of girls to learn, to think, to exist without fear.

Her story is shaped by the courage of someone who chooses to live in order to change the lives of others, because being an immigrant is not only about uprooting, it is also the ability to create space where there was none. It is strength, it is lifting your voice even when the world attempts to quiet it.

Malala is that steady echo that travels across eras and territories inviting every migrant woman to hold her voice, to turn her pain into a path.

In her name we honor all women who cross seas and skies carrying their inner fire, their truth and their right to be heard. May her steps illuminate ours as we move toward Woman Scream 2026 without borders, in a world where no woman should risk her life to be free and all should feel owners of their destiny.

Be part of our story.

We are Woman Scream.

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Learn more at www.womanscream.com

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