My Female Body as a Battleground Against the Colonial Gaze
As I distance myself from colonial, traditional depictions of femininity,The charming woman, captivating, yet transcendent of her shallow past.She descends from Thebes, Crete, Chichén Itzá, Quan Âm A totem, an animal, dehumanized and othered. My body, a battlefield,Mapped by colonial hands, reshaped by colonial gazes.A half-forgotten story etched in flesh,Half-colonized, half-colonial, never whole. They sculpted […]