They call us grey and haggard; unworthy of their society. But, did we ask to be born this way? No. It seems our rejected fate was chosen for us.
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The Graiai And Medusa
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Payoff
She’s been cast aside for a Daniel, a Darren, or a David and she listens silently as the panel tells her how close she was before eventually deciding she was ‘too good’ where they had her. They will be looking again in 6 months, but she can’t give six more months. All she can think about is her fifteen minutes, the only reason she works so hard. She imagines what could give her life meaning without it, if she wasn't measured in accolades and transient successes.
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Sapphic Silencing
My sexuality is not a university research paper, requiring citations in Chicago Style format
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Spotlight On Joy Davidman
To express the thoughts, emotions and cognitions we feel no other soul has ever known; to be able to capture a feeling in tangible language, place it before someone and have them say ‘that’s mine’, is a form of emotional empowerment few strangers can offer each other.
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The Reframing of Sex
“Every time a man cums in me / He leaves a part of his soul.”
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Lover
“To know one such as I know you / To love in knowing, as I love / The passages of your soul ...”
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Reasonable Adjustments
“I read the latest reply in the email thread with my lecturer, close my eyes, and feel my heart sink and chest tighten as I prepare for the all too familiar battle ahead. My faith in the system has been jaded by years of veiled requests to prove the legitimacy and severity of my illness over and over again. EAP be damned.”
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I Feel You
“I feel you in me / My insides do not twist / like they did when / I felt him ...”
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The Ascendacy
“I claim you like a pebble on a beach. You are a smooth weight in my hand carried for a period of pleasure then forgotten, captive in a dusty bottom drawer.”
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Back Here.
“Then, I see your face and I no longer have any desire to fight for my next breath. Your touch burns my skin. I feel your fist against my cheekbone.”