“… I commit acts holding me in contempt — I allow my legs to grow hair. I will my muscles to
“… I commit acts holding me in contempt — I allow my legs to grow hair. I will my muscles to swell, I growl, I touch myself, I wear comfortable clothes, I hex men that bother, I tell women their men are fuckers, I tell women they are the strength of the world …” Anonymously authored poem from Because Mourning Sickness Is a Staple in My Country, a “collection of poems by working-class dykes who have been going through changes and writing poems, among other things” (1973). -- source link
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