Four-Letter Words
Date
2019
Authors
Wang, Jennifer
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Abstract
PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: Before #MeToo , there was a debate about whether comics have the right to tell rape jokes. Around the same time, I was becoming a more vocal feminist, standing up for my friends who were a survivor and talking about my own experiences with crossed boundaries that left a bit of trauma. At some point, I felt my voice was being drowned out in the censorship debate so I wrote this poem to make my thoughts heard.
General Notes
This work received first place in the "Open Verse Poetry" category from all literary works submitted in the 2019 On My Own Time show.