gendah bendah

by d’bi.

gendah bendah / schooling pretendas

defendas a di box / trap call man

gendah bendah / yuh nah guh offend har

if yuh tell har seh she don’t look like a wo-man

she being me / di queen a androgyny

a put a hole inna yuh whole philosophy

(patriarchy)

mi nuh fit yuh paradigm / mi sorry mi incline

fi follow mi own mind / cuz i’m

an individual

shave mi head once a week / eye brow mi nuh tweak

mi nuh wear nuh lipstick / nor nuh makeup

(a lie)

den yuh si mi walk by / mi a look kinda fly

cyaan look inna mi yeye / don’t know if i’m a guy

(dyam idiot)

gendah bendah / schooling pretendas

defendas a di box / trap call man

gendah bendah / have a wombanist agenda

unshackle oomaan oppreshun

years an years of socialization

girl wear pink / boy wear blue

boy play sport / girl play house

girl get barbie / boy get fire-truck

gendah is a social construct

wi tell har seh she musn’t climb tree / we tell him seh dry him eye

we tell har seh fi close har legs / wi tell him seh boys don’t cry

we tell har seh fi please har man / wi tell him oomaan deh deh fi please man

gendah bendah / schooling pretendas

unlearning british colonizashun

gendah bendah / urging di sisters

redefine your wombanist position

question di standards a beauty

make-up/hygiene/weight-loss/clothing industry

based pon di sale a wi body

dem teach we early seh

if yuh anorexic yuh more beautiful / if yuh physically week yuh more feminine-ful

if yuh passive an meek yuh more female-ful /and if yuh black-work-inna-di-fields-fi-500 years slave-oomaan strong and assertive

yuh not beautiful  / yuh look like a man / betta still an afrikan

to all my people who be fucking with genda lines. dissecting race/class/sexual orientation

what’s expected. the status quo. the institutionalized shit

to all weirdos. people who be responsibly different

she/he he/she transvestite/ transgendered/queer/gay/lesbian/straight/bi/drag king/drag queen

to all people raising their children outside of gender norms

tell them she’s a boy. tell them he’s a girl. and let them both play with dolls (not barbie)

to all chi chi man. maama man. sodomite . butch dike. malecon. femme

to all cross-dressers. wimmin who are fathers. men who are mothers. everybody in between

to people who don’t assume when they meet me that i am boy because I shave my head

my clothes are genda neutral. i stand with shoulders broad. i am not passive and apologetic

to people like me. gendah bendahs/ undoing the social conditioning/ transcending

creating new tradishuns. rediscovering old ones. who bleed di blood a androgyny

when every foetus born they be she. first. gawdess. always androgynous. god always androgynous

ast/vadz