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[lifeinpoetry]

The tome of hegemony lives on, circulates in our libraries and our memories. One day, a girl like me may come across it on a shelf, pick it up, read about all the ways her body is a thing. And I won’t be there to protect her, to cross the text out and say: go ahead— rewrite this.

— Sally Wen Mao, from “Occidentalism”