Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm... Continue Reading →
What Would a Pro-Sexual Diversity World Look Like?
It is 2035, in the middle of a hazy summer. Raging struggles have been won and the world has been turned right-side up again. Sexual diversity, along with all the other wonderful human ways of being, has been embraced. I am old, and my skin is cross-hatched with wrinkles – one for each book (bits... Continue Reading →
By Farida Iqbal
Criminology
Every year, chemical pesticides kill no fewer than three million farmers. Every day, workplace accidents kill no fewer than ten thousand workers. Every minute, poverty kills no fewer than ten children. These crimes do not show up on the news. They are, like wars, normal acts of cannibalism. The criminals are on the loose. No... Continue Reading →
If poets must have flags
They ask for graceful poetry to decorate their tyranny poems to make the hideous picturesque entrails look like streamers blood like wine death like sleep They ask for wreaths to strew murdered mens’ graves posies of sweet-scented words to drench away the stench They want anger to be buried in the carved tomb of verse... Continue Reading →
resistance words 