voicelessness

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A year later, the alternative rock band Eve’s Plum, fronted by Colleen Fitzpatrick, conflated wearing lipstick with female voicelessness.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Living under an authoritarian state — with the fear, uncertainty and voicelessness — is the fate of millions.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

“I think there is a real history of orators who have had to struggle, a type of imposed voicelessness, you know, having that stage at inauguration,” she said.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2021

About how Nas evoked Queensbridge’s voicelessness through poetry that was vivid and lurid, thrilling yet introspective, and dark with glimmers of hope.

From Time • Apr. 25, 2014

And what would Guy be thinking of her for bringing him back to this voicelessness in which she could not any longer talk nonsense?

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton