feminist poetry
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Dialogue and Opinion
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Mitsuye Yamada
Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American writer, educator, and activist. Her works expose the discrimination faced by Japanese Americans during…
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Arts and Creative
Things I Have Called Myself and Things Men Have Called Me (Ages 7-21)
7 years old and i am jagged fingernails bitten down to the flesh, pink and raw. my mother wraps bandages…
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Arts and Creative
Eve, Woman, Lilith
My mother tells me to smile with reserve (laugh lines), to drink my coffee through a straw (stained teeth), never…
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Empowered Expression
your accent is almost gone
i wonder if the californian drought is drying up this soft brown soil, making my skin hard, cracked, and i…
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Empowered Expression
Remnants of the Dead Goddess
A universe of synapses collapses while She walks around the castle.
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Empowered Expression
My Childhood
This is how it has always been And the way it should never be A girl who cannot look at…
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Empowered Expression
An Apology to Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Malala Yousafzai
I’m sorry, Malala, if I may call you Malala, for wasting my privilege. I’m sorry that when I miss school…
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Empowered Expression
Giving Up the Ghost
Why flirt with aspirations when you can fucking run the whole thing.
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Empowered Expression
Ode to the Homegirlz
Y'all stay with me Whether I like it or not The love people mistake for rudeness The sugar disguised as…
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Empowered Expression
Walking Past the Graveyard
I have digressed from infallible abstractions as I look outside the window, ghosting along your heart, outside the cemetery.
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