caught in the crossfire between camps while carrying all five races on your back not knowing which side to turn to, run from;
the identity crisis/ struggle of being mixed raced
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- Sep 2019
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Quietly, instead, one and each takes the offense, rejection, bureaucratic dismissal, disease that should not have been, insult, shove, blow to the head, a knife at her throat. She won't fight, she won't even scream-- taught as she's been to be brought down as if by surprise. She'll die like an ant beneath a passing heel. Today it was her. Next time who
It has been installed into women at a young age to expect and accept the treatment that is given to them. It is normalized for women to go through these things and continues to happen.
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women who were molested as children raped, beaten, harassed, which means every last one sooner or later; women who've defended themselves and women who can't or don't know how we don't--won't ever rise up in arms.
Women who have gone through similar situations have a rare chance of standing up together because of how they were dismissed or neglected when they were going through these traumas on their own.
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We pass out petitions, organize a civilized vigil, return to work the next day.
Even through, petitions and organized peaceful protests women's voices aren't taken seriously, and the issue is treated as just a temporary problem and they are expected to carry on with responsibilities soon after
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In college those who've thought it out join hands in crucial times, carry signs, are dragged away in protest.
Protesting wasn't seen as a norm for women. those who did protest were courageous enough to strategize an effective way to be heard by uniting together through the heavy process.
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We women are sterilized, have more children than they can feed, don't speak the official language,
Women are expected to be child-bearers and stay at home mothers. They are seen as unqualified to manuever in the professional/business world
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They don't revolt in kitchens, laundries, or nurseries. Not by the hundreds or thousands, changing sheets in hotels or in laundries when scalded by hot water,
This is a representation of the stereotypical jobs description and positions that are expected of women who work
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-She starts to envision her life with her lover -It seems as though she expresses seeing "another world" with guilt as though the world they had to offer together is much more than her past "homeland"
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