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I was struggling to find a name for the blog. Ideas that came up like ‘hidden women’ turned out to be phrases or websites commonly in use. It was when I sat down with the women in the hostel that I started to get somewhere.
I asked them to say in a word or a phrase how they feel about their situation.
Keeley, a 29 year old resident in the hostel, is often coming up with catch phrases. I knew she was bright and really great with words, but what she sat down and wrote stopped me in my tracks:
There were themes from Keeley's work that came up across what the other women wrote. A feeling of being lost, confused, not knowing if they are coming or going, but wanting to move on. Their words inspired the name.
