We always see depictions of the “perfect girl” in movies, television, books, and just about everywhere else. She’s not like the other girls — she …
She Is Like a Son to Me
“She is equivalent to a son for me,” my maternal grandfather exclaims as one of my relatives (yes, Auntie, it’s you) comments on how having …
On Becoming by Carol Brown
Let me tell you a story about birth: A girl came home one day after school and the walls bent around her, wrapped her all …
Happy International Women’s Day!
Take some time today to appreciate the women in your life and all of the contributions that women have made to society since the dawn …
Badass Ladies in History: Black History Month Edition
Welcome, Germ readers, to Badass Ladies in History: Black History Month Edition! I hope your month has been filled with amazing new discoveries of black …
Phoenix by Sade Andria Zabala
Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else. Start with the hands. The feeble way they shake holding your morning …
Hortensia’s Speech by Farah Ghafoor
out of the cement the plaster come unholy diamonds. these slate men pointing fingers at priestesses goddesses hookers in silver. water pools from the salivating …
“She’s a Ho!” The New Version of “Mean Girl” and Why It Should Stop
We live in a world of girl-shaming. In the words of the wonderful Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, we tell girls to shrink themselves, and we tell …
Je suis libre de mon corps #2 by Meghana Mysore
when she was a child, she used to draw pictures of bodyless women, stacked on the page like books stacked on a shelf. neat and …