Tag: womanhood
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The Trouble Is How To Live
in a female body in a worldwhere male is the default,where man is who you aremeasured up by, pressed to,grinding against. The trouble is how to existin a body of curved languagein a world of lines,how to flow and feel and crawl,as the body yearns to do. The trouble is how to existas bilingual without […]
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Blood Paintings
I. Still I’ve said: motherhood is not for me. And my own mother has cringed, thinking of how she has tied her whole life around that role. She is imagining grandchildren and I am imagining forests. I have seen the housecat, mewing, gnawing kittens hang from her breasts — clinging and needing. Trapped, I have […]