Why Wearing a Mask Makes Me Feel Powerful
I’ve actually been masking long before the Covid pandemic.
I’ve actually been masking long before the Covid pandemic.
Tiana Nobile, Ansley Moon, and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello chat about poetry, their experiences of being Asian American adoptees, and more
They defined beauty. They defined womanhood. And they felt so, so far away from the woman I felt myself becoming.
Searching the cultural landscape for references and role models, it’s not easy to find many women simply living their lives while disabled.
“I’ll always be viewed as a hyper-political symbol before I get to be a human.”
“We need to try and secure our personal information now.”
“I was going to blend in, and maybe live there forever.”
“Why do the stores still have that insulting name?”
“Feminist discourse became the visible strain of cultural feminism.”
“Madisonians have an almost mythical belief in their accentlessness.”