This one is to all my strong, non conforming women out there who continue to strive ahead in a world in which questions your ability and reasons to do so.
Thank you for your strength, for your vigour and for your power, which in spite of what others may say, does actually exist.
Endless amounts of gratitude for calling out those who consistently belittle your worth as a human being by judging this against standards associated with your ‘beauty’.
Thank you for being the funniest person in the room and for not cowering when men around you feel uncomfortable and somehow emasculated because of this capacity.
Praise and appreciation for expressing your sexuality and practising your sexual rights in the face of being slut shamed, labelled a whore and chastised for a lack of purity.
Thank you for choosing to wear what makes you feel happy, strong and like the badass you are even when others may suggest that this is at odds with your perceived ‘femineity’.
Endless love for being labelled one of those ‘femi-nazis’ day in and day out and continuing to conduct yourself with humility and grace whilst still keeping up the fight.
Thank you for being influential, significant and effective leaders even while being rebuked in your decision making capacity as over emotional and hysterical.
Love and gratitude for continuing to speak up in the face of being branded an angry man-hater instead of some pretty darling to be seen, complimented but not heard.
You deserve so much more appreciation than you will ever receive but please know that I, and many others like me, am thankful and will forever be.
Sx
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