{"id":14087,"date":"2021-09-06T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-body-is-not-your-soapbox\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:37:42","slug":"my-body-is-not-your-soapbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-body-is-not-your-soapbox\/","title":{"rendered":"My body is not your soapbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>My body is not your soapbox<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Cheryl Vail<\/em><\/p>\n<p>you are not the arbiter of my curve appeal<br \/>the constable ticketing the lack of a gap between thighs<br \/>or the angle of sharp elbows <br \/>my orifices are not your sink holes<br \/>you\u2019re not the border agent stationed at my labia <br \/>you\u2019re not the master of my clitoris <br \/>you don\u2019t decide if she is he if a chromosome has a Y<\/p>\n<p>my body is not your soapbox <br \/>your legislation is an abomination <br \/>to push policies that send your <br \/>agenda on trajectories to keep <br \/>people in their place <br \/>or ostracize those of us <br \/>who don\u2019t abide by your sanctified lies<\/p>\n<p>my body is not your soapbox<br \/>to say the cells in my womb <br \/>are yours to groom is as terrible<br \/>as when you abandon them to be a pariah <br \/>once the air has filled their lungs<br \/>abortions the appropriateness of social welfare and <br \/>the length of my pubic pit and chin hair <br \/>are not yours to decide in state houses<br \/>or the zeitgeist<\/p>\n<p>my body is not your soapbox <br \/>is not your package bound in pink tape<br \/>my nipples are not daggers blinding your morals <br \/>my breasts may they be mountains or molehills<br \/>are beautiful and bountiful and only sexual <br \/>if I want them to be<\/p>\n<p>my body is not your soapbox<br \/>my menstrual cycle is not your profit<br \/>your luxury tax and it is not my shame <br \/>you are not the tailor of my skirt hem<br \/>or the seamstress taking in my waist<\/p>\n<p>my body is not your soapbox<br \/>take away the legalese<br \/>the posturing and proselytizing <br \/>I\u2019m not the downfall of paradise <br \/>and I\u2019m not your bully pulpit<br \/>my body is not your soapbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My body is not your soapbox by Cheryl Vail you are not the arbiter of my curve appealthe constable ticketing the lack of a gap between thighsor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}