Wednesday, March 9, 2011
4SKIN FTW: Circumcision Trauma Poem
4SKIN FTW: Circumcision Trauma Poem: "A warm and tight embrace, keeps me sheltered in this room. My safe and secure nest, I know this is your womb. I feel the surges pushing m..."
Feminist Coming Out Day.com can kiss my maternal ass!
I'm not really shocked my submission wasn't published on Feministcomingoutday.com. I am disappointed however that my voice is foreign and irrelevant because I have birthed babies, fed them from my breast, and while I will stand for a womans right to govern her own reproduction, I talk more about her right to govern her own childbirth.
Tolerated Submission for a Faithful Childhood
Let me start out by saying I am not raising a racist. I am raising a feminist.
We live in a very multi cultural area in Southern Canada with the majority of new immigrants being from the Middle East. The covering of a woman’s head is something I see everyday and it is indeed based on religious values and morals first and foremost. We are NOT talking about a cultural tradition. That said, every organized religion today has roots in misogyny, with perhaps the exception of Buddhism. I submit some of my favorite quotes from both the Qur'an and the Bible.
We live in a very multi cultural area in Southern Canada with the majority of new immigrants being from the Middle East. The covering of a woman’s head is something I see everyday and it is indeed based on religious values and morals first and foremost. We are NOT talking about a cultural tradition. That said, every organized religion today has roots in misogyny, with perhaps the exception of Buddhism. I submit some of my favorite quotes from both the Qur'an and the Bible.
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