Daily Dose: 116

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

For those of us assigned female at birth, we are “rewarded” with desirability and punished for desire. That is why it’s essential to distinguish between the two. Power lies with she who desires. And it is when we enter menopause, when patriarchy deems us “invisible” and therefore undesirable, that our desire takes centre stage and is no longer “punished” with consequence, such as pregnancy. When we think of desire and desirability within those parameters, we can render moot the “invisibility” that patriarchy threatens us with and claim instead a power that it always tried to deny us. I desire, therefore I am.