I wanna become superwoman: Learn portuguese in sixty seconds, End pollution single-handedly, Feed rice a roni to the planet, Win awards left and right. I wanna become super woman: Paint the Taj Mahal red, Knock down bureaucrats by the dozens, Create creative pandemonium. Flying off the edge of everything. Super woman. Writer: Joan McNerney Artist: Sunanda BasuContinue reading “Super Woman (Joan McNerney)”
Category Archives: Femme
What the World Asks of Me (Amy Lee)
What the world asks of me That I exist As a Stateless being That I breathe Not live That I hide behind boba That I submit For their black gold Wind shakesContinue reading “What the World Asks of Me (Amy Lee)”
Kamli (Devika Das)
Neerja Verma is a social worker and Social Studies teacher in a government school in the city of Shitalpur. She dons her peach coloured sari with a light red border. Applying kohl in her eyes, she places a medium-sized red-coloured bindi at the forehead’s centre. Few minutes later, Beena, her 14-year old daughter, calls outContinue reading “Kamli (Devika Das)”
Black Women Feminists (Tola Ijalusi)
You’ve been begat, infused and convinced of you Struggling against race, sex and power Interlocked in the oppression of conditional living Inherited from your mothers and sisters militancy sacrifices Who countless consistently coined the politics. You’ve evolved from your intimate experiences Discern in your daily reality Griping your patriarchal rule, sexual oppression as factors. You’ve painstakinglyContinue reading “Black Women Feminists (Tola Ijalusi)”
An Unsuccessful Marriage (D.M Navoda Dissanayake)
Achintha who had a curly hair and some arrogant look on his face was not an educated person. By looking at his face, anyone could judge what kind of a person Achintha was. Achintha was a violent, hot- headed man who got angry very quickly. Hailing from a poor family, Achintha was 35 years old.Continue reading “An Unsuccessful Marriage (D.M Navoda Dissanayake)”
Another Story Passed On (Purbasha Roy)
Cosmos gardener mourned his untimed flower’s death his tears breaking nearby forest nape like waters adamant to fill earth’s every room but what good it did as evidences washed to oblivious shorelines, spilled opaqueness small newspaper corner spent next day ‘another elderly women branded as witch sleeps to death’ no candle flamed no slogan onContinue reading “Another Story Passed On (Purbasha Roy)”
A Household Woman (Avijit Roy)
Shehas stopped counting her bones long ago, They are too many, too visible beneath her thinning skin, Slowly consumed under a concrete sky of dark soot. At night when a male weight is dumped on her spine, She tills earnest masculinity into her womanhood. Her fond memories smile under the sunshine, Recalling the little girlContinue reading “A Household Woman (Avijit Roy)”
AWAKE, ARISE. DO NOT LET VIOLENCE DARKEN YOUR LIFE (D.M Navoda Dissanayake)
Today we live in a new environment where the universality of some abiding values and even some issues of global concern are being challenged as unpatriotic and contrary to our own national consciousness. Former SriLankan president, Maithreepala Sirisena said in an event at United Nations headquarters that “Women hold up more than half the sky”.Continue reading “AWAKE, ARISE. DO NOT LET VIOLENCE DARKEN YOUR LIFE (D.M Navoda Dissanayake)”
Woman of the House (Seth Brown)
We are standing in the kitchen,and we are arguing over the dirty dishes in the sink. I am currently losing the argument,which is a shame,because I am right. She’s saying that the pots from last night’s dinner are still dirty,and that a certain someone needs to be better about doing the dishes,and that that certainContinue reading “Woman of the House (Seth Brown)”
Almost Unbeautiful (Krishna Ahir)
Drying unshed tears falling from graceless eyes She is dancing in her sorrow And singing through her pain Feet treading on shards of dying dreams Her voice is rasping noise lost in chaotic air She will push herself onto the silver streets Seducing all and any is who she is now Daylight dreams crushed intoContinue reading “Almost Unbeautiful (Krishna Ahir)”
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