This week at school, the eighth grade class had gotten a visit from guest speaker Helen Rossi from the Pregnancy Counseling Center. They had separated the girls from the boys and talked about how we should wait till marriage before having sexual intercourse. Us girls had watched a video about a teen mom who gave birth to twins, a video about abortion, and some clips from Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey about how both teenage boys felt about having sexual intercourse, and how teenage girls felt about it. However, this isn't what my blog post for this week will be about. This week I will be talking about a certain poem we read by Lucille Clifton. While the boys were out doing their talk, us girls stayed in our English class and annotated poems that were meant for women. The poem we annotated by Lucille Clifton was called "homage to my hips". "homage to my hips" is a short poem (1 stanza/15 lines) and it talks about how she, like her hips, is free. She goes where she wants to go, does what she wants to do, and she does not like to be held back. She is free and has never been enslaved. She is mighty and can "put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!" The reason why I am writing about this poem is because I feel like more women need to be like Lucille, they shouldn't be embarrassed about their body type or their personalty, they should be themselves and flaunt it. They should take pride in who they are and not care about when men think the "perfect woman" should be. We all are beautiful, we are NOT objects for men to do with as they please. We are strong, independent women who don't need no man. Without us, man wouldn't be alive. We are important, we aren't trashcans. We are women, never forget that.
(WE CAN DO IT) (WE ARE ALL WONDERWOMEN) (WE ARE WOMEN) (WHO ARE WE)
(WE CAN DO IT) (WE ARE ALL WONDERWOMEN) (WE ARE WOMEN) (WHO ARE WE)