#queererthanfiction

Feminist: noun. an advocate for social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. Feminist: noun. a woman who believes men and women are equal. Feminist: noun. a woman who believes her body is hers alone. Feminist: noun. a woman with an opinion. Feminist: noun. a woman who won’t make you a sandwich. Feminist: noun. a very dirty word. Feminist: noun. a female who believes women are better than men. Feminist: noun. a woman who turns everything into a political agenda. Feminist: noun. the politically correct term for a bitch. Feminist: noun. a girl who doesn’t give blowjobs. Feminist: noun. a girl who won’t take it in the ass. Feminist: noun. an ugly and/or emotionally inept woman who blames her faults on men. Feminist: noun. a self obsessed fascist who wants to destroy men. Feminist: noun. a girl with daddy issues. Feminist: noun. a whiny hag with sad in her vagina. Feminist: noun. a fat, hairy lesbian. Feminist: noun. petty, jealous bitch. Feminist: noun. misandrist. Feminist: noun. man hater Feminist: noun. feminazi. Feminist: noun. Marie de Gourney, Susan B Anthony, Eleanor Marx. Feminist: noun. Germaine Greer, bell hooks, Judith Butler. Feminist: noun. Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft Feminist: noun. Audrey Hepburn, Emma Watson, Ellen Page. Feminist: noun. Joan Jett, Bikini Kill, Amanda Palmer. Feminist: noun. Lavern Cox, Gail Simone, Alison Bechdel. Feminist: noun. Me.

Fear the women with the hardened skin fear more the ones who dare to be soft. Fear the girls with the patience to spend an hour on their makeup and another on their hair Fear them more when they’re women with the precision to do the same in minutes. They will never miss their target. Never avoid the ones who have nothing but the shirt on their back and a pack of cheap cigarettes but be reverent of them and learn their names. Fear women who can uproot their life to move to another country. If you don’t like having them here, you can leave. Fear the ladies who refuse to sit with their ankles shackled together. Equally fear ladies who sit poised as cobras. Fear the ones who are too large to be contained by your close-minded concepts of gender and sex. Fear grey women who store wisdom in the wrinkles around their eyes. Treat them well. Fear young girls who can grow to be trees, flowers, or boulders. Fear the women who wear pant suits in the day and mini-skirts at night as much as those who wear them the other way around. Fear women who can crush you beneath combat boots and high heel shoes. Be repulsed by women who hurt other women. Be disgusted by women who hurt men. Destroy women who hurt children. Fear the mothers who never had to raise a hand to her children. They do not deserve your fear. Beware of sisters. Of any age. Fear the teenagers who know what patriarchy is. Be fearful for the ones who don’t. Fear the ones who climb corporate ladders and smash glass ceilings. Fear the ones who hold form the foundations of family homes. Live in fear of women. We are every bit as capable of cruelty as you.

She tells me she isn’t beautiful; her body is broken and miscoloured. Fat. Ugly. Hairy. Stretched. She spits the words like salt from her mouth And I can barely express. I tell her she's a wonder. My hands are explorers and I am a cartographer, writing this poem into a map so I can always find my way home, but she still doesn't see the beauty in her wild geography.

They say boys will be boys when they treat girls like we're toys. Every news story, song says it's right when it's wrong. I'm getting used to abuse on the streets in the sheets. Every girl that I meet has a tale. I grow pale. I can't take it no more make it stop it won't stop. Stop saying boys will be boys. They'll grow up to be what you say boy really means.

There’s a storm in my heart and a tornado in my lungs; My muscles tremor like the earth during a quake; I have tsunamis in my steps and hail in my voice; My blood is magma waiting to erupt. I dare you to cut me and feel the fire for yourself.

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