feminism the oxygen I inhale gratefully often desperately in a world where rapists’ reputations and futures are held in higher regard greater importance than the legacy of trauma that has been inflicted on girls on women against their will where old white men declare balls of dividing cells have more rights than living breathing women … Continue reading Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies
Feminist:* adjective Sometimes fem·i·nis·tic.advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. nounan advocate of such rights. I keep my feminist agendaclearly displayedon the refrigeratorwhimsical magnetsholding it firmly in placemuch to the discomfortof those visitorswho are convincedthat feminists have nosense of humorI would like to saythat I cross itemsoff the list dailybut combatting toxic masculinityeliminating outdated gender rolesstomping out rape cultureand smashing the patriarchyare a lifetime commitmentvisitors are also flummoxedto … Continue reading We Should All Be Feminists
you call me shrill loud bitch whenever I interrupt whatever VERY important thing you must be saying to speak my truth your tone patronizingly implying that my voice is so shrill it could break mirrors etch glass whenever I am audacious enough to steal the floor from you to speak but why settle for merely … Continue reading Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman
when I only kissed girls I was accused of being a man-hater when I could braid the hair under my arms broke disposable razors on my legs I was called earthy-crunchy when I decided to major in women studies I became a bra burner when I interrupted men demanded my turn I was a bitch … Continue reading Bad Feminist
ivory-hued dolls with wavy golden locks lovingly combed and styled sat carefully along the bedroom shelf their piercing blue eyes painted open in horror their mouths forming silent O’s of unheard screams no protection no comfort can they offer these porcelain witnesses of the injustices inflicted upon her young brown body by a racist society … Continue reading The Bluest Eyes
a woman speaks into the void tries to impart necessary truth that actions proposed will harm the vulnerable increase suffering for those who already know it too well but she is drowned out shouted down by furious men in sharply tailored suits who insist that what they have to say is more valid more important … Continue reading The Neverending Story
Brave & Reckless 