"Sometimes you win; Sometimes you learn"

[dsxsbx]

[deadbeatmaker]

when people are like “oh so you’re just gonna judge someone for their political beliefs?” yes actually. I think someone’s values and opinions is a pretty reasonable thing to judge them for.

[nim-lock]

trying to hype myself up for taxes like

[yourteaiscoldnow]

Something New

Yes, I’ve been told

That a woman really should speak

Only when spoken to.

Her, my, any woman’s, voice

is less than.

I‘ve been told

It would be impolite, unlady-like

To stand up, jump in,

To unleash my voice without permission.

I am to clench my teeth

Bite my tongue,

To stifle what could be loud, strong, bold.

It isn’t polite

For a woman to be too strong,

I’ve been told.

I think about women who made me.

All the strong, bold,

“unlady-like” women

Who built this burning voice in me.

That I’ve now been told to stifle.

I think of my mother,

Her independence, her bravery,

Her refusal to stifle her voice,

Regardless of what she’s been told.

I think of my great grandmother,

Who would

Never shut up

to be polite.

And her, undoubtedly humorous,

dismissal of the whole idea

Had she been told to do so.

I think of my kind, gentle grandmother,

The softest,

most lady-like of us all.

Who showed me that strong,

doesn’t mean hard.

There are many ways to be bold.

I think of these women,

Mothers, Aunts, Sisters, and Friends-

Who built me.

Who built this sure, strong voice inside me,

Who made me

A woman with no intentions

of letting anything I might be told,

Stifle me.

I think of these women,

The reason I have

Fire in my veins,

Why I can speak - scream for myself,

Why I have to scream

for women who can’t.

The silent women,

Taught from birth

That they are somehow

Less than,

That they must only do and say

What they are told.

Yes, I’ve been told

Who I should be

To be a lady.

That I am somehow

Less than,

Because I am a woman.

But I’ve also been told

Of strong, bold women

Who came before me,

And who showed me:

We are not less than.

I have been shown what it is

To be a strong, bold woman.

A woman who can not

Subdue the fire in my veins.

I have learned that those of us:

Women full of fire, boldness, strength.

We were built this way,

filled with the means

To overcome what we’ve been told.

Our fire is to be let out,

Screamed out,

Until every woman knows

We are not less than.

Until every woman can

Overcome what we’ve been told

We stand and scream with our fire,

Bold, strong, loud.

Until every woman hears.

Because it is about damn time

They are told something new.

[makinginfinity]

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[stability]

[electricheart]

https://instagram.com/p/BI56HvdDsnA/

[wishbow]

[cultoftomorrow]

[geelherme]

[life-is-a-very-big-joke]

“Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.”

— Faraaz Kazi (via thoughtkick)

[jojordan-art-deactivated2025120]

[knowing]

[succulent]

[destroymylife]

[veinings]

“You will always remember what you were doing / when it hurt the most.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds (via 7-weeks)

[free-your-mind]