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women's voices
Writing
Battle Wounds
By Caroline KoenigSometimes things happen
It is a part of life
But no one said it would be this hard
Take her back to the start
In the beginning it was all fun and games
Aphrodite Defiled
By Farah DianputriI didn’t ask for your
insecurities
Or your hands
To venerate me.
trials of the female
By Ashley HoneyThe moment I was conceived
And my egg was fertilized to have xx chromosomes
Instead of xy
My body was taken away from me
And placed in the hands of men
The hands of men that control dress codes
The fingers that will slap my ass as I walk down the street