Trans women are women and I’m not sure why we keep having this conversation, Karen
A contemporary poem from E.B. Johnson.
i’m not sure why i have to tell you again, karen
why her hair is so long and why she
walks as though the weight of the
world is riding on her shoulders
i’m not sure, karen, why I have to tell you once
more why she longs to feel the safety
of your bathrooms and the places she
was once denied / those parts of herself
that were a…