You get pregnant and the man leaves you. 👀
Society calls YOU a whore.
Calls the baby a bastard. 😭
But somehow there’s never a shameful name for the man who walked away.
So I got my period at work today with absolutely no warning and went around asking all the women in the office if anyone had anything and nobody had a single thing.
One of the guys overheard me and said he had pads in his car because he keeps them there for his girlfriend for emergencies.
And then he went out to his car and came back and handed me a pastry bag.
This man had put the pads inside a pastry bag so nobody would know what was in it. To save me the awkwardness of walking through the office visibly carrying pads. He thought about that. On his own.
And it wasn't just one, he gave me two because I had an eight hour shift and he did that math himself apparently.
I was not prepared for......
I identify as a badly behaved woman. In a society that barely values women, talk less of “good women” I refuse to center my life around male validation.
The broken shield of the people became silent.
More silence, is all we get.
Gradually, like smoke, the silence drifts its way into the sky until the sky was consumed by it.
Bori🦋
The day the sky stayed quiet.
That night, the sky held its breath and forgot to exhale. Silenced by the loudness of Mother Earth, the country continued setting tables for citizens that would never return home.
Pretence, fear and anxiety became a three course meal. One for breakfast, the rest for lunches and dinners. Voices of the captured became buried in the wilderness and heads were plucked from necks like fruit from broken branches in the hands of the beasts of the highway.
Every freedom you have as a woman was earned through the sacrifice of women who came before you. You didn’t inherit these rights by luck. Someone marched, protested, and paid a price for them.