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Durga-mata

girl power

Featured image: Hindu goddess, Durga. “The Invincible”. According to the Shaktas, (a denomination of Hinduism focusing on the worship of the Shakti or Devi, the Devine Mother) Durga is the Adi Shakti (The Original Creator).

In honor of  Women’s Day, one of Daniella’s favorite poems celebrating the female body:

listen,

you a wonder,

you a city

of a woman.

you got a geography

of your own.

listen,

somebody need a map

to understand you.

somebody need directions

to move around you.

listen,

woman,

you not a noplace

anonymous

girl;

mister with his hands on you

he got his hands on

some 

damn

body!

          Lucille Clifton

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