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I’m listening to the audiobook from the library, but I’m going to need a hard copy of this for sure for sure for sure

there is no way to live in a body on an earth in a universe this complex and not carry questions in your pockets like accumulated change. i have come to fear my lack of answers far less than humans who claim to have them all.

code switch. “why should my tongue choke on itself for my intelligence to be proven? i will not call my voice colloquial when yours is always welcome in its natural form. my words nach b/w two languages fighting over them… i will not italicize all the parts of myself that make no sense to you.”

“product recall. in this world worth is defined by the way poreless skin stretches across correctly chiseled bone by the places where fat strategically stores itself by the obedience we hold against our own heads—safety removed as we discard all the pieces of us that do not fit within the plastic mold” I don’t typically read poems but wow, every page is so empowering & beautiful. I am loving this book so far

I had no idea what this book was about. Let alone that it was like poems and such 😂 it’s good tho!

obsessed

I’m one poem in and I’m already eating this up.

Best quote so far:

“i dont know how to smile
through the debate that turns
my humanity into a question.”

listening to the audiobook (that is read by the author) you can hear the pain in her voice as she reads the words

Jasmin Kaur has a beautiful way with words

i love this page, but it's far too long to type out.

ive been trying for years to bring it to the table.
to redirect its attention. make it see reason.
to have a constructive conversation about all the good
we could do if we were on the same side. but my heart has
a will of its own and only ever speaks to me through
a clenched jaw and tearful eyes. its rarely had ears for me
and im a shitty negotiator anyways. i somehow always
listen long enough to forget my own point.

sometimes
no matter how hard you try
the soil just isn't right
and the water goes nowhere
but downward.

even the most carefully planted seeds
cannot flourish where they were never
meant to stay.

"when they throw
the word feminist
at you like a fist
against your ribs
like an aged curse
like your mother's shame
pry it fom their fingers
and weave it into your tongue
drape it across your skin
or abandon it all together
but remember that
this weapon is yours
to use however it is
you please."

i can actually relate to some of the poems

thought this would be a quick read but I’m learning about myself that I don’t really understand poetry

I’m not sure o understand fully of what’s happening in this poetry book

Loving it!

The poems are complicated. They’re honesty. I have to pause a few times to reread an clarify the meaning of some lines.

Its deep. Every word is so perfect.

Loving this so far! The poetry is stunning and the thoughts behind them... even better :)

“the empowerment that I seek does not degrade other women

i will not suffocate someone with that which allows me to breathe.”

“if you love
writing about the
way your tongue has
been stolen from its mother
but cannot see those from
your motherland within you

believe me when i say
that the colonizer
has already strangled and
swallowed you whole.”

A little hard to get through

Once an author told me that she hoped her book would be such a good friend to me. And it was.

This book has been such a good friend to me, too.

Feminism

„no matter how many times you are drawn back to this burning house, fire will not meet you with kindness.”

“you are not the moon and the tides of my well-being will not be pulled by your every mood”

That Barbie poem though...amazing.

beautiful. feels like milk and honey but more eloquent