“Make Some Beautiful Babies” (@sareytales 2020)
Found poetry created from the anti-choice, anti-women, anti-humanity (and unsolicited) messages I have received from m*n on various dating apps over the years.
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I won’t say it wasn’t difficult to sift through these garbage messages, full of hypocrisy, disinformation, violence and utter ignorance, but i also know it was my choice to do so. After writing “A Man of Integrity” using all the trump messages I received, I felt compelled to do the same exercise but with anti-abortion messages. There is something cathartic about re-purposing the words intended to belittle, harm and discredit, reframing them in a way that empowers, uplifts and educates.
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I know this poem will be hard to read. It is hard to share but i think it’s important to feel this discomfort as we work to disrupt the status quo.