#intersectional - Hello Poetry

My mother asks me to buy her milk and I stand in line at the grocery store. I hold the milk and I remember seeing our housekeeper's daughter yesterday, a 16 year old child, breastfeeding her 1 year old son. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl playing with her dollhouse, it asks the little girl to be the doll. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl fixing the ribbons over her braids, it thinks of ways to tie her legs as tightly as her hair. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl, it doesn’t see a little girl. I feel that I call it her culture when I was born in the same city. I see the line was moving while I stood still. The woman standing behind me holding a jar of coffee, a pack of cigarettes, and a pair of tired shoulders gives me a look for not paying attention. I take a step forwards, I look behind me; I smile politely at her, and say “I’m sorry”.

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Aug 8, 2018

Aug 8, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC

astronaut

An Apology

My mother asks me to buy her milk and I stand in line at the grocery store. I hold the milk and I remember seeing our housekeeper's daughter yesterday, a 16 year old child, breastfeeding her 1 year old son. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl playing with her dollhouse, it asks the little girl to be the doll. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl fixing the ribbons over her braids, it thinks of ways to tie her legs as tightly as her hair. I feel sorry that when her culture sees a little girl, it doesn’t see a little girl. I feel that I call it her culture when I was born in the same city. I see the line was moving while I stood still. The woman standing behind me holding a jar of coffee, a pack of cigarettes, and a pair of tired shoulders gives me a look for not paying attention. I take a step forwards, I look behind me; I smile politely at her, and say “I’m sorry”.

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feminism fails when it disregards those of color for we know that every dollar a woman makes a man makes more we seem to disregard the bit where a women of color make even less than their white counterparts feminism needs to stop excluding disregarding those impacted most it's a hazard to progress pull up a chair scoot down the bench it's time we serve up intersectional feminism for the table can hold more there's plenty of progress to go around

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Apr 21, 2018

Apr 21, 2018 at 12:24 PM UTC

Rowhomeward

19/30

feminism fails when it disregards those of color for we know that every dollar a woman makes a man makes more we seem to disregard the bit where a women of color make even less than their white counterparts feminism needs to stop excluding disregarding those impacted most it's a hazard to progress pull up a chair scoot down the bench it's time we serve up intersectional feminism for the table can hold more there's plenty of progress to go around

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Do not call me by your nicknames I can see the poison dripping off your tongue Do not touch me without consent This body is mine and mine alone Do not tell me to stay quiet My words could spark a revolution Do not try to control me My power is unbridled and vicious Do not mistake me for weak I am a force to be reckoned with

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May 3, 2017

May 3, 2017 at 3:06 PM UTC

JoannaRose

Feminist

Do not call me by your nicknames I can see the poison dripping off your tongue Do not touch me without consent This body is mine and mine alone Do not tell me to stay quiet My words could spark a revolution Do not try to control me My power is unbridled and vicious Do not mistake me for weak I am a force to be reckoned with

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I am not your pusher I am not your ***** I will not stand aside and hold the door While you climb and push me to the margins: • skip my footnote • ignore my humanity • take the credit and more I will not sit back (hide my pain) While you continue to Slander my name (steal my flame) A desire for: •Equality •equity •fairness... You fake. My fire/my heart Our creations/our art You take.

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Feb 25, 2017

Feb 25, 2017 at 5:37 PM UTC

Nonya

Untitled

I am not your pusher I am not your ***** I will not stand aside and hold the door While you climb and push me to the margins: • skip my footnote • ignore my humanity • take the credit and more I will not sit back (hide my pain) While you continue to Slander my name (steal my flame) A desire for: •Equality •equity •fairness... You fake. My fire/my heart Our creations/our art You take.

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