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.