These women aren't just pushing the dance form's boundaries but also challenging ideas about what women can and can't do in public spaces.
Tag: safe spaces
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Are You Looking At My Chest?
Let the world be suddenly afraid of our chests, for our breasts are finally staring back.
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What Is the Big Deal If a Woman Loves Freely?
I am constantly reminded to calculate before I speak, to be selective in friendship, to love secretly, to despise pleasure, I am cautioned against going wayward in my pursuit …
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Home Is the Name We Made up for Where the Heart Is Stuck
‘Come home’ Ma says. ‘Enough of this estrangement.’
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The Day We Walked to Saffy’s
I know my most precious friends by the way their laughs curl upwards from the soil of their bellies.
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Have You Left the Building?
This poem was written in 2014, in the aftermath of the Peshawar school attack that killed 134 children.