"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." -Anne Frank 

For women and other marginalized groups, the act of writing about one’s experiences has been a powerful form of subversion for centuries. The diary gives us a place to voice what society would like us to remain silent about, to develop our own viewpoints, and assert agency without interference or censorship. It’s also a medium where many writers are born for the first time.

These gold earrings honor the practice of writing about our own lives as something important and significant, and famous female diarists such as Anne Frank, Samar Yazbek, Claudia Jones, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, and Sylvia Plath.