"STORY IN WHICH I AM THE GIRL BUTTHE GIRL IS NOT ME or I AM NOT MYSELF, YET or(I WROTE THIS BEFORE..."

“STORY IN WHICH I AM THE GIRL BUT

THE GIRL IS NOT ME or I AM NOT MYSELF, YET or

(I WROTE THIS BEFORE I EVER KNEW I WAS AGENDER)

 

 

I believe in the girl next door,

who likes to be called “her”

but who woke up today

with a gender that felt

like hand-spun wool and spilt milk,

and still doesn’t know

how to tell her mother.

 

I see her—being woman too loudly.

Trying to make up for all the years

she made pink a dirty word.

Trying to make up for hating

her birthright.

Her inheritance.

 

Unwilling to abandon the ship

she’s already spent so many years

trying to keep from sinking.

 

 

 

Going down with it.”

- STORY IN WHICH I AM THE GIRL by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)