Patriarchy

we didn’t start the patriarchal fire

I didn’t know all the possibilities for my future

This is happening right in our culture.

Memories are unreliable sources of fact

the new swimsuit was so sexy it was like a bomb was going off

An empowered woman does whatever she wants.

You know things are serious when grandma is protesting

And then he said, Why can’t you just become a doctor and leave politics to the men in the family?

patriarchy is a social construct, not the all-encompassing reality it pretends to be

I mourn for the me that could have been…in a world devoid of patriarchy