WMC FBomb
October 28, 2010 | Ilinca N |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Blood On Her Mind
Tonight she cannot sleep because there is blood on her mind. It's on her hands as well and on her nails. Pretty soon the sheets she wraps herself in will be stained with it and sweat; then the stench ...
WMC FBomb
Be Yourself
I can see your accusing eyes
I can hear your insults behind my back
Don’t you know the world is telling you lies?
They’re telling you that I’m fat
They’re telling you that you’re not good enough
They’...
WMC FBomb
October 14, 2010 | Sonia L |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Blazing Stink of an August Sidewalk
Blazing stink of an august sidewalk. My fingers my eyeballs are grey with the newsprint of this morning’s sins and a heavy shamed sickness knowing I am born with Certain Inalienable Rights: to have le...
WMC FBomb
October 07, 2010 | Shenny |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
Honor
The morning was grim.
Mom woke me earlier then usual, whispering something about a family outing. Her lips were trembling and her eyes were nervously flitting around the room, as if afraid that someo...
WMC FBomb
September 30, 2010 | Ilinca N |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Tomorrow, Triangles
She learns shame when she’s a first grader. She learns hunger later on. And hate, she learns that in plenty. The way her thighs rub against each other, the soft roundness of her body. So she starts dr...
WMC FBomb
September 16, 2010 | Emily B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
How To Be Casual
Eat slowly, but finish everything. When he asks about school tell him it’s OK and then neglect to return the question. Stare at the cheap candle in between the two of you as he talks about himself, un...
WMC FBomb
Half The Sky
Over the summer, I read Half the Sky. The entire book was incredible, but I was moved by the chapter on the sex trafficking industry. I wrote this story as a way to try to imagine what that experience...
WMC FBomb
August 26, 2010 | Sonia L |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Lilith
After what you said to him there was never again any truth spoken in the universe. For the first words out of their mouths when they heard you were lies.
Lilith, the burn of dirt and grass on your ba...
WMC FBomb
August 19, 2010 | Katherine C |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
At 6 AM
at 6 a.m.
according to my shadow i had grown another head
another long arm that sifted long
fingers
through my own knapsack
but i didn't feel a thing
i guess i was an easy target
an early-morning wom...
WMC FBomb
August 05, 2010 | Sarah T. |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Dear World
Dear World,
Today,
I will speak out.
Today,
I will report the man,
Who gropes me on the street.
Today,
I will tell my story,
To anyone who asks.
Today,
I will warn every woman and girl,
Of the man on ...
WMC FBomb
July 29, 2010 | Emily B |
Arts and culture
Labeled It Love
I'm sick of the way you labeled it love
with emotions manufactured out of flesh and contrition
you can try to hide lust in the vat of a fairytale
but saying you love me isn't a fucking baptism
I'm si...
WMC FBomb
July 15, 2010 | Freddy-May A. |
Arts and culture
Tomorrow
Tomorrow,
I will sit silently as I hear another rape joke,
letting it hit the wall I’ve put up,
blinking hard when my eyes start to prickle.
Tomorrow,
I will wait until I’m around people who agree wi...
WMC FBomb
July 12, 2010 | Emily B |
Arts and culture
Another Night
Before the sky empties of truth, she
tells him. He peels apart dollar bills like clammy thighs as
the faucet drips out a heartbeat
Or maybe it was tears.
She wishes she could turn up his love like
the...
WMC FBomb
July 03, 2010 | Steph |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Andrea Gibson
Andrea moved from New Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where she began attending weekly poetry readings at Denver’s political hub, The Mercury Café. In a years time she had rushed the scene, making her ma...
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Brotherhood
Oh, how I wish to
be in a fraternity.
How grand it seems;
basking in the glow of
boyish camaraderie.
Alas! Tis’ the stuff of dreams-
Brotherhood,
never meant for a girl
like Me....
WMC FBomb
June 10, 2010 | Hannah C |
Arts and culture
Tradition
I was thinking about female genital mutilation and the prevalency it still has within a large number of African communities, and in other countries worldwide. After reading Alice Walker's Possessing t...
WMC FBomb
June 03, 2010 | Sarah Coggrave |
Arts and culture,
Media
Organs Grabbing
Organs grabbing
My greedy little body
It’s full of little hands
Feed me now they shout at me
You must meet our demands
Every tiny organ
Is pushing for its share
I was first no me pick me
Their finge...
WMC FBomb
June 02, 2010 | Markita S |
Arts and culture
The Music in the Bedroom
The whole thing starts with a sentence—not even—a word. As I sit on the scratchy, green couch, mashed up between Sara and Noah, I hear that word and I just feel… odd. It’s like all of me, my powdered ...
WMC FBomb
May 24, 2010 | Allison Y |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
I Am Not
I am not:
a helpless lamb.
a damsel in distress.
a glorified baby receptacle.
a little flower incapable of thought.
I am a philosopher, a scientist,
an artist both in the visual
and auditory re...
WMC FBomb
Every Minute of Every Day
I just received an e-mail from Ms. Magazine about their 'Countdown to 2015 Campaign'
The e-mail started with this sentence. "Every minute of every day, a woman or girl dies from complications of ...
WMC FBomb
April 15, 2010 | Christina B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Equality
I am a face of change
No you are not deranged
Change of what? you ask
Change that the underanged see
Female Stereotypes
I am still a face of change
And you are still not deranged
You tell me you don’...
WMC FBomb
February 16, 2010 | Zoe G |
Arts and culture
The Show
When she was six years old, she came to the Show and stood in this same spot, between the Ferris Wheel and the hotdog stand. Happy and innocent, sucking on her lollipop.
Now, nine years later, she’s ...
WMC FBomb
January 07, 2010 | Kate S |
Arts and culture,
Media
Monster
there was never a pat from dad
there only was a slap on the head
unconditional love that lasted a blowjob
a dollar bill measuring her worth
how many men does it take to crush a girl
millions could ta...
WMC FBomb
Support Women Artists Sunday: Florence & the Machine
Florence and The Machine is the name for Florence Welch and her cast of backing musicians. The band has received a great deal of critical acclaim since their inception and were chosen in 2008 as one o...
WMC FBomb
November 11, 2009 | Sarah T |
Arts and culture
Dare
Don’t call me your only one,
Don’t tell me that you can’t live without me,
I know that these are lies.
Don’t you dare lie to me.
Don’t touch my breasts, they belong to me,
Don’t touch my vulva, m...