Body Positive – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

conversations

February 17, 2017February 17, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Everyone: How are you feeling today? Me: anxious and self- conscious. Everyone: Oh? (Taken aback) Me: yeah. I feel life is crashing down on me. Like I'm in the middle of the ocean and I'm drowning. There is not enough air yet my lungs keep on working. I put so much pressure on myself that [...]

Body Positive, feminism, Poetry, thoughts

my womb is not my own;

February 6, 2017February 7, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Like Eve, I fell, And like Lilith, I am punished. My womb is not my own; Pale hands caress and judge As I spread my thighs with my own authorization; my womb is not my own; Pain wrecks havoc inside of me, I curl Up like the fetus inside me; my womb is not my [...]

Body Positive, feminism, Poetry, thoughts

I am

February 3, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

in all honesty, i am a compassionate person; a woman, female born, society defined, I am all and I am nothing; I crave the rays of sunlight, i dance under the crescent petals of night, i shiver when the sky weeps, i cheer when the droplets twirl in the white sky; I am human, I [...]