~Jenuine I celebrate my sisters who put pen to paper and give sound to our story and volume to our voice creating a collective consciousness unified in the vision of womyn writers and poets and artists and leaders and thinkers and doers I celebrate my mothers who drew lines in the sand stepping out of [...]
~Jenuine from so many different angles of our upbringing– media, society, religion– something has always told us that as women, we are responsible to keep everything we present to the world pretty, neat, tidy, delicious, lovely, attractive, and desirable— from our bodies to our dinner tables this notion has been ingrained into the innermost parts [...]
In the Words of Womyn celebrates it’s first birthday! Wooohooo! What an incredible first year we had! In January 2010, ITWOW was born out of conversations and experiences and a passion for empowering the voices of womyn everywhere. ITWOW began as a writing circle workshop and grew into this website featuring online publications of womyns’ [...]
~Ariana Torres She walks with so much pride no doubt she got the style Got the nerve to be different all seems well in this girls life Look in her mind you will see her last night with a knife Taking it to her veins drops it to the floor as her heart pains Shes [...]
~Martha S. Mejia “…be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else…What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke …Innermost self…worthy of your entire love… Empowerment. Ultimately we are the only [...]
~Jenunine I will not hide my laughter– I will let smile burst forth and shine upon those in whom I delight I will not be robbed of my light and my joy, I will glow in spite of those who would snuff me out I will not cower in fear– for those who prowl and [...]
~Bethany Lauren Grigsby To my potential-but-not-guaranteed or wholly essential future male life-partner I come with a proposal That if we commit to walking down an aisle of marriage We commit to walking in a certain kind of life First order of business: Let’s take an axe and chop down that white picket fence they told [...]
~L. B. Nelson Warm Sun Breeze flowing through Work-worn Hands clapping Life-worn thumb harps Spring in rapid unison; Fiddle strings stroked Slowly up, Slowly down; Harmonicas inhaled exhaled; Double-time guitar strings Pulled then released swiftly in-between Children chatter, crying, laughter Flowing through people drumming Community humming Swaying their best give-take joy, Nutrition to all Souls; [...]
~T. R. I hurried into a religious bookstore one day anxious to pick up a book previously ordered. Old-time church hymns played on overhead speakers. As I waited in line a nearby magazine caught my eye, the caption reading, “Woman of the Year.” My eyes traveling upwards saw a blond woman with long softly curled [...]
~Jeanette Iskat @ www.facebook.com/jeanette.iskat Love for all the mothers the grandmothers all your mothers all our mothers good bad perfect imperfect human. Love the step mothers the foster mothers the run away mothers the absent mothers the baby mama mothers the girls not-ready-to-be-mothers the girls too-ready-to-be-mothers the girls letting-another-woman-be-mother-mothers the would-be mothers the never-will-be-mothers the [...]
