Fluency in Feminism

EKTA SINGH

NOTION PRESS

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This book is dedicated to all the women who choose to stand for themselves.

Contents Acknowledgments Poems

Ekta Singh

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the Universe for giving me this opportunity. If you’ve your hands on this book, I would like to thank you for asking the Universe for this book. I would like to thanks my parents who have always stood by my side. Everything I have is because of them. I am grateful to the women all across the world for choosing to raise their voice. Also, I am thankful to the team of Notion Press.

Fluency in Feminism

When I look for my old images in the mirror I realize that I never saw myself in the mirror When I didn't love myself.

Ekta Singh

Letters of betrayal When I quietly sit to write Letters of betraying the marriage tradition The winds knock on my window I open it to let it enter The winds coo in my ears The chauvinistic beliefs of my grandmother.

I never try to hold the winds against their nature For who am I to do that to another creature.

Fluency in Feminism

Ekta Singh

Voices inside a woman’s head As I grew up, as a woman, I developed two voices inside my head. One is of a girl that you'd call weak. She stays quiet and let me cry every time I see a tear in my mother's eyes. She asks me to close my eyes when the doctor gives injection to my brother. When I meet the dark parts of my closed ones, she tells me that it's alright to feel the pain in the guts and place my hand to save it from spilling. It asks me to look into my teary eyes in the mirror and cry without thinking. That voice inside me stays quiet and lets me feel everything. It keeps on telling me that it doesn't make me weak but I ignore. The second voice is of a girl who can't stop abusing people. It continuously tries to figure out who I am. When I look at my crying mother, she starts talking about how my mother shouldn't listen to what people say. When doctor injects medicine to my brother, that voice tells me how my brother always hides his pain and not let his closed ones hold him through it. When I realise the