Just try to lock us up.
I’m enraged by the reality that as a woman/uterus owner in this country, it is my responsibility to protect myself from cis men and their choices. Legally. It is my job to not get too drunk, not be too pretty or show too much skin, my job to be on the pill, my job to be ready when you are, my job to make sure I do not get raped or assaulted and get pregnant, my job to carry the child, to birth it, to feed it, raise it, with no help. It’s on me regardless of who put a seed in me or a hand on me. My body is my responsibility and my problem. So you would think that it is mine. You’d think that I own my body then, no? If I am responsible for everything that happens to it. That is not my experience. I identify as a cis/white/bi/woman. I’m 40 years old and I am not a virgin. I'm extremely privileged. And this is what I've been through. There have been countless times in my life when I realized that the world and cis men specifically saw my body, as a ...