for when it needs to be said over my dead body

she/her pronouns.
poet.
queer, in the most dangerous way.
a believer of liberation within a generation.
someone who always knew that the struggle alone is the struggle toward community is the struggle of the future of us all.
(when you grow up in a cult you learn this early.)

let them say that i screamed as much in the statehouse as in the streets.
let them say that when i had to choose to sue cops or hospitals, i chose the hospital, in the name of greater closer goods for us all.
let them say that i killed many, many zygotes, both mine and others'.
let them say that i abandoned conservative christian values for the opportunity to overturn the tables in the temple.
let them say that i grieved at every trans day of remembrance.
let them say i insisted on my right to autonomy even when no government, no economy, no family, no social structure has ever granted me that right.

one of many. one of the masses.