Daily Dose: 21

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

Patriarchy insists on controlling our mouths and vaginas and, by extension, everything that enters and exits those orifices. Patriarchy insists that it and it alone can police those orifices. Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene, the power to name bits of our bodies when it wants and to determine their gender, and to punish us for daring to think that those parts of our bodies are ours, whether by name or in fact. My message to patriarchy is clear: stay out of my vagina, unless I want you in there.