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i didn’t think bad men would mask themselves as good men. that they would never announce themselves as bad, or merely present themselves as good—until it no longer served them. pathetic until the end, i didn’t think a bad man.would take away my virginity with a throbbing blunt thud never call, or get me pregnant, or tell me that i’m a dramatic cunt that all kinds of women get abortions, “it’s not a big deal.” bad men
— Aug 05, 2024 03:37AM
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Alice
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look at yourself, the skin, dark like sunned-in terra-cotta our arteries laced with tyranny, we are fighters, warriors. i am descended from khadija, from ayesha, from fatimah, too—ameen. i am the woman who wore a burqa to fight, the niqab to remind men that my body is an untouchable ghost, the horsewoman, like a beast, i sit on my throne, warning them with a grin, loose tooth our blades hollow, but still cutting, i a
— Aug 05, 2024 03:26AM
