Shanthini Naidoo speaks about her book Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (2020). The sacrifices and contributions made by women are rarely acknowledge in the histories of liberation movements, and Naidoo’s work is an important corrective. Nomfundo Mogapi contributed her profound insights on trauma and its transgenerational wounding in her response and Dr Azille Coetzee shared her expertise on feminism and women’s resistance.