Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAs you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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There is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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