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International Women's Day

International Women's Day

this isn't late. it's everyday.

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Mar 11, 2025
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Reminder. Mostly I post at my pesbo where the format is clear and the text is still on my server.

Let’s see if I can get the godless cursitycusssplat pixels to work with me and single space the poem-beastie. No.

Right then. Manually reformatting back into lines and stanzas it is.

Getting Along

“Why should we shrink from our full harvest? why/ Prefer to glean with Ruth?”—Christina Georgina Rossetti, Sweet Death

“One thing I have started doing is paying attention to what timestamp the first woman with a speaking role shows up - if one even does. It's eye-opening once you make it a habit.”—Julia Gulia @jrobb773.bsky

Does a woman cede her agency
make herself a minority in power
by saying it does not matter

if she does not lead, nor drive
nor speak up, this time. by letting
it pass, she stays unbothered.

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