I am not an obstacle to navigate through I am the reason you are breathing The feet that trod out the path even The light that subverted all your darkness Am I not the pulse of every one of your revolts? Ain’t I a woman? Ain’t I a woman? Ain’t this a rhetorical question?
— Kai Davis, from “Ain’t I a Woman?” Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, ed. Briona Simone Jones











