World Cup of Sexism

I'll start this post with a friend's story. Thaís is my blog partner (I collaborate in a Brazilian feminist blog, Ativismo de Sofá) and I was pretty horrified when she told me what's happened to her, recently. She was walking down a street in Belo Horizonte, the capital city of Minas Gerais, in Brazil....

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Paper Dolls

796 paper dolls We cut them, yes A chain of sadness An emblem of pain 796 paper dolls The strain of lives Statutory madness A poem of disdain 796 little dolls Their lives, so brittle Intolerants reign Provide no sustain 796 piled dolls My hands, they hurt But no pain bigger than The...

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Naipí

I'm a woman from the global South.  Don't you know you can't really hurt me?  My soul, my precious,  It's already scarred. Nothing really jolts me I'm still able to acquiesce From star  To starred.  I'm a woman from the global South.  Don't...

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