A visitor comes to the door. The call goes out. Is there anyone here? Is anyone at home? From within, a woman’s voice answers. No. Nobody.   But she is there. Her daughters are there. The house is full of living, breathing human beings. Yet her answer is immediate and certain. Nobody.   This is not a lie. It is a reflex. It is a truth forged in the daily fire of being unseen. In that moment, she translates the question through a brutal cultural dictionary. “Anyone” does not m

I do not dwell on what failed. I do not tally losses in a ledger of regret. The exercise is not productive. The question is never what went wrong. The question is what did it reveal? What can I learn from this? What can I do better? What caused it—not as a search for blame, but as a study in mechanics. A problem is a signal. It tells you where the structure is weak. That is valuable data. That is the first entry in your asset base.   This is the view from the end of 2025. It

Can a digital tool be neutral? A government launches an online portal for reporting gender-based violence. The technical achievement is clear. Now consider the woman in a rural community with poor network coverage. She might share a mobile device with her husband or brother. Does she know the portal exists? Can she access it safely, without fear of someone seeing her search history in the phone’s log? Does the form require a stable internet connection she cannot maintain? Doe