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Tag: Fairytale

A Prayer for/to Everywoman

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 hgopinathan2 Comments

I will fight great battles for me. And stain my hair with the blood of my oppressors. I will not wait for a hero to protect my modesty. For I am not a modest woman. I am loud and I take up space. I do not know shame nor guilt nor secrecy. I will walk [...]

Posted in Feminism, Others, PoemTagged Fairytale, Feminism

A Shitty Story

April 3, 2018April 6, 2018 hgopinathanLeave a comment

She was a really happy fairy. She lived in a beautiful world of castles in the air, gurgling brooks, colourful butterflies,neat rows of flowers, fat, gambolling puppies, not the big eyed, street kind with their poor ribs showing and all. Not that she discriminated against them, but they were just so so sad, too much [...]

Posted in Art, Others, Short storyTagged Composting, Dystopia, Fairytale, Manual Scavenging, Shit

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You are a nothing, my daughter accused me at age 4, when she found out at school that all her classmates’ mother’s had jobs that gave them important titles like banker, doctor, teacher. And such a blessing that has turned out to be that I don’t have one thing that defines me and nothingness offers me the space to be a homeschooling parent, an artist, a writer, story teller, a crocheter and everything else that comes with the territory of being a stay-at -home mom. Being a nothing keeps me out of trouble.

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