Editor’s note: This is an ode to all the overbearing brown girls who have been told that they were too much. You are enough. a femme Muslim , survivor and storyteller. you, sharp-tongued, mouth full of worms steel-faced, not-interested-in-you overbearing brown girl. they say “no“ sleeps between your teeth waking to feed on…
Poem: Ode to the Overbearing Brown Girl
By Ro Maryam