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Wednesday Poem: "Things I've Been Told to Do Only by Other Women, Never by Men"

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Jun 11, 2025
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The story of this poem: It’s Pride Month, and I’m considering all the gender roles that have been pressed into my flesh, as well as whose hands have done the molding.

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