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Sad Girl Poetry

Sad Girl Poetry

Mutsatsa, Karen

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN13: 9798325430497
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2024
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
I think the girlchild's sensibilities have been weaponised against her for centuries. That, being emotional is seen to be weak, and that hyper emotion or uncontrolled emotion is mostly exhibited by the 'weaker sex'. In these 19 poems, I share my unadulterated femme truth. I shamelessly and boldly present to you, my 'hysteria', in hopes to redeem myself from the turmoil of my girlhood.

Excerpts from Preface:

There is so much trauma assigned to girlhood and womanhood that female resilience is not a wonder but a necessity, in my opinion. The strength and tolerance of women towards pain is not a beautiful coincidence, a way for nature to assist us to fulfil our natural duties, but a warning and a buffer against the consequences of female embodiment. Dramatic, I know. But that's how I feel.

This collection is everything I have felt, experienced, and thought regarding embodying femininity, as a person that identifies as a queer, cis female. The poems are about being a black/African girl, being a sad little girl, being a queer girl, being born a girlchild, just everything girl.

Excerpt poem, 'Gothic Princess' (page 23):

There I go swimming in my bath salts,

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