Tag Archives: poetry

Reading a Magazine on my Lunch Break

By Melanie | Published: December 27, 2012

TweetSacrifice your dignity on the altar of eternal beauty, one more treatment and you’ll be just perfect, darling. Lose a couple pounds and then you’ll be just right. All the beauty clichés your mother whispered in your baby ears about skin deep beauty in the eye of the beholder; the beholder is a man and [...]

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Paper-mache Princess.

By Laura | Published: January 10, 2012

TweetWork starts at nine. Not enough light to blend this illusion, Not enough time. I blend just enough to be effortless, But not so much that I’m revealed. My pale skin hiding beneath the layers, Waiting to be accepted, not to be concealed. I live as these other people, Laminated, polished and frozen. But somehow [...]

Also tagged Beauty, celebrities, celebrity culture, raunce culture, self-esteem | 1 Comment

I belong to no one

By sovi | Published: December 22, 2011

spousal abuse is universal. We can end it by raising the awareness.

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Women Deserve Better

By on-the-issues-magazine | Published: December 9, 2010

TweetCross-Posted at On The Issues Magazine By Sonya Renee Taylor Culturally-diversified biracial girl with a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile poses besides the words “Women Deserve Better”. and I almost let her non-threatening grin begin to infiltrate my psyche until I read the unlikely small print at the bottom of the ad: [...]

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