#unwaver

A History of Feminism and Sex Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Texts to reference:

"The Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument, Icons, and Ideographs in 1909

Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcards" (Palczewski 2005)

"Inversion and the Third Sex: Gender Variance and Queer Expression in Anti-Suffrage Rhetoric" (Pankuch 2018)

Tinnitus splits through my

concentration,

as trains prattle on near city lines,

wheels spin as the ground vibrates,

my knees ache as the dusty gravel bites

into bruised skin, rocks chew through the 

thin black fabric, I long to stretch,

flex, extend my petrified limbs, 

but I'm rigid and my muscles hardly twitch,

stiff, a corpse, rigor mortis.

I attempt to dip to the side and find

relief, but my joints crunch, unyielding