FEMININE COLLECTIVE – Page 56 – Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered

12 Everyday Sexist & Misogynistic Things That Men Need To Stop Doing

March 4, 2019August 13, 2021 John Michael Antonio

In 2012, writer and activist Laura Bates founded her groundbreaking website The Everyday Sexism Project with the distinct purpose of providing a place where women from all walks of life could share and relate their daily experiences with normalised sexism and misogyny. The project has been an enormous success and Read more

Sounding

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Kari A Flickinger

Words sometimes settle between thighs. Eye up—all night think how I don’t your shoulder brush, cough don’t, you away, leg. I don’t acknowledge your mouth when you’re talk -ing, how can you? Talking such silence between an affect. Sounding pangs liquid off every windshield tears the sky open. Tears, tears. Read more

EMBERS AND ASH

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Jacqueline Cioffa

I wrote EMBERS AND ASH some years ago. I don’t remember the precise day; I only remember the unlucky circumstance. I needed to come home. I was unwell. Truth? I was out of my fucking mind, and the only person I wanted, needed and trusted was the one who birthed Read more

Excavate

February 28, 2019March 4, 2019 Emily Algar

You touch me and I give way You wrap your arms around me My back against your chest And I lean back, Oh how I lean and bend against you My skin against yours has me making sounds that are not my own You have awoken something in me Something Read more

Last Act of Love

February 21, 2019May 29, 2019 Mary Stocker Frumkin

I knew the problem was serious when Greg could not muster the energy to get himself to the ice cream shop at the end of the street. This daily expedition had become his afternoon treat to cool off from the summer heat. We were in Australia to spend Christmas with Read more

Not 1937 but 1972

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 Elisabeth Horan

For Olds… for Bruck We aren’t shaped things like our moms’ hairdos So round so golden so smooth like this guy’s ego He says better not have that cheeseburger better not have that chocolate malted — And your thighs chafe like hers… so what — so, skinny is Holocaust rated. Read more

POLITICALLY CORRECT

February 17, 2019May 7, 2019 Anne Leigh Parrish

Who may tell her story? Who has earned the right? What if she’s come and gone? Has no tongue, no eyes, no hands? Must one wear her skin, eat from her bowl Fight nightmare’s demons on her sleeping mat just to feel the Rhythm of her heart? Aren’t we all Read more

For the Jukebox that Won’t Stop Playing the National Anthem

February 17, 2019March 6, 2019 J.B. Stone

the sultry ode composed of smashed teeth, blood stained glass, hammer-fist dents, ready to turn public spaces into choral asylums, turn town squares into scorched earth & blast the blistering notes of nationalism, numbing the ear drums in the worst of ways, we howl like drunk men in wolves clothing, Read more