Speak

If you desire to be heard, then you must speak up. While your hands and voice, they may shake, you must stand tall. Deny what they tell you that you are.

SHE is not. I am not.

For society thinks we are only black and white, you must bleed the colors of you.

Seek within yourself and unleash that fury. Never hold it back for their sake. Break down the illusory woman. Much more than eye candy. Much more than just a wife and a mother. You do not have to smile or look a certain way to be "beautiful.” Beauty is the world, beauty is in nature, in what we create and what already is. Do not measure yourself against this standard. For you are beautiful, and primarily you are brilliant.

So drop the labels we’ve created. You don't need to be this type of woman or that type of man. Walk your own path and never let them change you.

We must not let them continue to pit us against another.

1000 candles lit from one match and not one will flicker

we will burn brighter than ever imagined. Together. United. Ignited.

The value of woman and man is invented

for we are all alive.

And we will rise.

They cannot oppress our spirit.

Tear yourself open and let out your screams.

Understand this.

She will not bend.

Try to spread me open and taste my essence: brine and vinegar. Fuck your pink flowers and glitter.

I’ve never much cared for gentle submission.

Hand me the gun, and without hesitation

cock and shoot.

No more scratching the surface.