The Poetry Club, Airplane Poetry Movement and The Hive came together to pull off an event on #UndoingGender. They had asked for submissions and this piece was one that they picked for a feature performance. I performed it last evening with Karthik Rao on the guitar. This piece would go on to take a life of its own and become my identifying work, called ‘Have You Met My Feminism?’
Why is motherhood a decision taken by consensus, not my consent? Do I want kids? I don’t know.
I’m a woman who struggles with the assumption that I cook. He opposes the idea that as a man he can’t. But family kitchens follow gender stereotypes.
I picked up the crochet needle today. I began crocheting in 2002 after I heard it was calming. My impatient younger self had been bored by the labor but in 2002 I found something else. I was struggling through something I did not understand, had no support or idea how…
A trip to the Oxford bookstore yields some cynical trends about readers and the publishing industry and ends in a befuddling find.
You’re uncomfortable in silences. In sighs. In whispers. In conversations. How do you feel about holding hands?
So I finally finished ‘The secret dreamworld of a shop-a-holic‘. Oh, don’t run away! My taste in books hasn’t turned as sour as my taste in men (highly questionable according to one reliable source). Let’s start with how I come to be in possession of this disastrous book. Earlier this…
So absolutely love it!
Loved it!! Yay
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