“Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.”
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
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