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International Women\u2019s Day,<\/p>\n
Thursday, March 8 , 2018<\/p>\n
By<\/p>\n
Jennifer Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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I am a woman.<\/p>\n
Born with a penis.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who harbors the moon<\/p>\n
In the center of her soul.<\/p>\n
Born with YX chromosomes,<\/p>\n
Low testosterone and high levels of estrogen,<\/p>\n
So much so the doctors<\/p>\n
Were concerned for her health.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with a manta ray<\/p>\n
Billowing in the dark waters of her heart.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who went unrecognized<\/p>\n
When she was born regardless<\/p>\n
Of the hormones glowing in her body.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who walks with the willows.<\/p>\n
I am a woman given testosterone shots<\/p>\n
When she was a child.<\/p>\n
I am a woman born with Bast in her mind.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who sired three sons.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who steals through the woods<\/p>\n
Like a ribbon of light.<\/p>\n
I am a woman called, \u201cMister,\u201d<\/p>\n
For many of her adult years.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who sings to each and every tree.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with a voice<\/p>\n
Everyone identifies as male except the trees.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with hidden wings large enough<\/p>\n
To drape around her body when she sleeps.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who shaves her tits.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who speaks stars and planets.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who feels most comfortable physically in men\u2019s underwear.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who roars.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who walks the world in fear for her life, yet walks anyway.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who knows when you are secretly grieving.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with hair on her fingers.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with baskets of bread in her arms.<\/p>\n
I am a woman most people do not want to see.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with a spirit on fire for justice.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who presents in ways so as to smash the tired binaries.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with darkness in her eyes that leads to lakes hidden by trees.<\/p>\n
I am a woman blessed to be born again and again.<\/p>\n
I am a woman surrounded by ghosts of ladies in waiting.<\/p>\n
I am a woman feared by men and their stunted desires.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who raises the dead from the ground as she passes.<\/p>\n
I am a woman feared by TERFS and their insecurities in their own femininity.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who nests in her bed like a sleeping bear.<\/p>\n
I am a woman feared to exist in the world.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who bathes in flowers.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with lotuses growing up her spine.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with orchids watching from her thoughts.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with tigers hiding in her laughter.<\/p>\n
I am a woman followed by trooping faeries.<\/p>\n
I am a woman walking side by side with a snowy unicorn of power.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with herbs in her pockets and moss on her cloak.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with hidden rivers of light in her touch.<\/p>\n
I am a woman with the universe in her hair.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who shatters skewed perceptions.<\/p>\n
I am a woman who knows herself as the moon knows the trees.<\/p>\n
I am a woman.<\/p>\n
Born with a penis.<\/p>\n
I am a woman changing the world.<\/p>\n
I am a woman as divine as you.<\/p>\n
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