Project 5: Body: Katie Knight

We Bleed for Our Country,

Or The Republic of Female Equality

We bleed for our country.  We work, we fight, we yearn.  We give birth to the citizens of a country where we constitute 50.8% of the population, yet our bodies find themselves the domain of political, social, and economic forces rather than a wellspring for our own thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, and visions.  In a parallel universe, where the measurement of our strength would be founded in character than in biology, we would still bleed, but we would bleed much less.

In a time of increased attempts to regulate the choices and freedoms of the female body, we declare, in the name of equality:

            Our bodies are our own, no one else’s.