"THIS PICTURE WILL NOT CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT I STILL NEED FEMINISM AND I’M GOING TO REALLY, REALLY TELL YOU WHY":

-Because I got called a ***** for wearing a short plaid skirt when I was 10

-and because when Nujood Ali from Yemen was 10 she got divorced

-Because black girls’ names became my classmates’ favorite “joke” when I was 11

-and because when an 11-year-old girl in Texas was ***** by 18 men the New York Times wrote of how the girl “dressed older than her age”

-Because I started counting calories when I was 14

-and because when Malala Yousafzai was 14 she was shot in the head for trying to go to school

-Because I heard a boy greet a girl with “hey ****” today at age 16
-and because when a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio was filmed being ***** by two boys at a party while unconscious the CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was because the rapists had such bright futures as athletes

-Because I will have to watch my drink at all bars and parties when I am 22

-and because when CeCe McDonald was 22 she was sentenced to 41 months in prison for defending herself against a man who screamed transphobic, racist insults at her and then slashed her face with a bottle

-Because no matter what age I am the biggest threat to men will still be heart disease, and the biggest threat to women will still be men.

-Because it is not just about me, because it is not just about anger, because it is not just a JOKE, because it is not just about “hating men,” because it is not just about girls with vaginas, because it is not just about ending “****”, because it is not just about white straight girls in Rookie magazine, because it is not just about writing on backs, because it is not just about the fact that gay men are “****” but lesbians are “hot,” because it is not just about pictures of thin white girls being the only google image results for the search phrase “beautiful women”, because it is not just about writing signs, because it is not just about what she was wearing or how many times she said yes before she changed her answer to no, because misogyny is not just about one thing and feminism is not just about one thing and it is not just “a trend” and it will not “happen” in just one way.

-And because yes. It is about equality for EVERYONE, but first and foremost it needs to be about equality for girls, because they are not treated equally to men, in every single sense, and you are not going to take feminism away from me and call me bossy/hostile/aggressive and make this about yourself or make it into a joke, because truth be told, I’m not joking and I’m tired of explaining. If you want to call yourself a feminist, you work hard to spread feminism, you do not turn this into a contest of whose struggle is greater and constantly demand to know what you can get out of feminism personally. Feminism is not just about you, or me, it is about everyone. If you’re male and you’re tired of men being stereotyped as hyper-masculine, soulless, sexist, inherent leader-tyrant creatures, then go out and prove the patriarchy wrong and fight for girls, like someone with a soul who believes in equality would. Then, yes, feminism will be about everyone.


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the year opened on two kinds of olympics:
Sochi and selfie.

we spent months looking for
one missing plane
276 missing girls,
and 43 missing students.

from Ukraine to Mexico,
Palestine to Venezuela,
to Ferguson,
the front of the battle lines
were crammed full.

their stories captivated us,
their movements motivated us.

we snapchatted, we vined and instagrammed,
we remembered their names.

Malala Yousafzai
to Mike Brown.
Eric Garner to Ebola.

we made some friends
and some enemies.

and I think,
when I look back,
years from now,
at the year 2014,
the first thing to come to mind will be,
"I was there."

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I raise up my voice -- not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

Malala Yousafzai

Such wisdom from one so young
Such clarity for the truth
Such bravery in the face of danger

Dare we place upon these shoulders
the heavy burden of hope, expectation?

Already your name will live for ever

I am a teddy bear made from loosely sewn together patches of cardigans passed
You are a warrior trapped inside a glass jar full of butterflies they sewed inside of my stomach.
You, warrior, hunt monarch dragons from the backs of black bears draped in the patchworked wings of fallen enemies
You are iridescent in the sun that pierced through the holes in my slipped stitch skin
You have woven a basket from antennae and leaf stems you found on the ground
Lassoed the last of the mourning cloaks and tied them to your basket
And like a butterfly air balloon you rose
Rose
Saw the battle ground below you
Flew towards the light above you
From within your winged chariot you directed your flock out of the mason jar home they sewed you inside of me
Saw all the butterflies you once drove away fluttering aimlessly
And drove them once again towards the space between my seams
They pushed against my fabric
They pushed against my thread
And they burst forth, scattered, iridescent in the sun a kaleidoscope of butterflies in the sun
My skin fell to pieces covered in stuffing on the floor
The jar shatter echoed off the walls
And I was a boy
And you were Malala Yousafzai
And I was in love
And you were warrior
And I dreamed of a life with you
And you dreamed of freedom
And I reached for you
And you kept flying
And I waved goodbye
And you, warrior, did not look back

La beauté est éphémère
Et passagère est ce qu'on voit
Ce n'est pas ça qu'on recherche chez une femme, ce n'est pas ça

Il est question de Grâce
Ma sœur appelle sa "Woman  of tomorrow "
Been a Queen
Tout femme naît princesse, mais elle doit se transformer en reine

C'est ça qu'on recherche chez une femme Cette royauté est acquise avec la maturité
Et une double couronne est en jeu
Puisqu'on dit :
Une femme en talon est certes élégante, belle ou ...
Mais une femme à genou est plus Puissante
Tous les Combat se gagnent dans la prière
Elle devient une reine pour Jesus

Je dédie ce poème à ma MÉMÉ, car en l'écrivant j'ai reconnu la vérité dans ces paroles de Malala Yousafzai 
Je cite : il y a deux Puissances celle de l'épée et celle du bic, mais il y a une 3e plus Puissante que les premières, la Puissance d'une femme

Une femme est forte
Courageuse et Brave 
Elles incarnent la Bravoure des plus Valeureux Chevaliers de l'histoire
Elles inspirent l'humanité

On rend hommage au Reines de notre histoire pas aux princesses
Elles marquent notre Histoire et la parsèment d'une saveur agréable qu'on ne serait pas décrire

Ces reines
Descente d'esprit d'âme et de corps
Sans complexe de supériorité étouffant ni d'infériorité agaçante
C'est d'elles que je parle la 

On dit que personne n'est parfait.
Mais je me dis que si les défauts d'une personne n'égalent pas son bon côté
Et qu'elle est toujours prête à s'améliorer
Pourquoi ne pas dire qu'elle est parfaite

Ma mère, la mienne est une Reine-Parfaite
Love you mum 
La mienne

Thales, Aristotle, Plato
Hume, Nietzsche, Rousseau
Da Vinci, Pasteur, Newton
Einstein, Curie, Edison,

Mother Teresa or Yousafzai
Dante, Shakespeare and Rumi
Gandhi, Mandela, Jefferson
Ataturk, Churchill, Washington

Orwell, Freud, Aquinas
Hugo, Dostoyevsky and Marx
Lincoln, Martin Luther King
Galilei, Copernicus and Darwin,

And thousands of more names
Names with the righteous aims
Contributed the most to humanity
Suffering a great deal with dignity

If a poor-fellow, on the other hand
An honest believer, I understand
A Buddhist, Jew, Muslim or Christian
Or member of any other religion

Really thinks going to the same heaven
With the above ladies and gentlemen
By just breathing day in and day out
And thinking it’s enough to be devout

He either got the wrong impression
Or have a problem with discretion
Or else he must be thinking that
Judgment of God is fairly bad

I think there is a way out of this
Find what your true mission is
I know it’s neither money nor chair
A hint: Help, teach, devote and share

Complete it with sincerity
Caress your soul with integrity
Afterwards, even if there is no God
Trust me, you’ll still be on the safe side

They might at least put your name on
A suchlike poem written by someone
Otherwise you’re just a passerby
Producing nitrogen for both soil and sky