international women’s day, every day

happy international women's day

to the nurturing women

who raise men, to the

ambitious women who get

their dollars in the face

of unequal pay, to the

sexually liberated women

who [redacted] in

a shame culture, to the

alpha women who have to be

louder than everyone else

to kill off soft-spoken

stereotypes,

to the women of color

who live in the gray areas & see beyond

black & white,

to single women who bear children,

to women held captive somewhere or to someone,

to women who are still girls,

and to women who are becoming.

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