Welcome to the Feminist Poetry Apothecary. A Feminist Poetry Apothecary? Yes, you read right. Poems, especially Feminist poems have been the backbone of KrantiKali’s inspiration. in fact feminist poems have seen us through a lot of ups and downs in the four year’s that we have existed. Hence, the apothecary that too a feminist poetry one at it.
We have curated a list of feminist poems from womxn from the Global South in this archive we hope they bring you closer to yourself and the world.
The Dance of the Eunuchs – Kamala Das
मैं तैनू फ़िर मिलांगी – Amrita Pritam
Bridge in Making – Nandini Sahu
I want to break open – Susan Nguyen
Homage To My Hips – Lucille Clifton
Poem in Praise of Menstruation – Lucille Clifton
We Sinful Women – Kishwar Naheed
The River of Girls – Tishani Doshi
Kyunki Mein Ladki Hoon Mujhe Padhna Hai – Kamla Bhasin
Girls Are Coming Out of The Woods – Tishani Doshi
My Gender Is My Race Is My Gender – Alok-Vaid Menon
Women In The Waiting Room – Kiurn Kapur
Yr Not Exotic, but Once Ya Wanted to Be – Tarfia Faizullah
Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta – Reetika Vazirani
It Was The Animals – Natalie Diaz
Handwritten Preface to Reverse The Book – Bhanu Kapil
We Used Our Words // We Used What Words We Had – Franny Choi
Let Me Handle My Business, Damn – Morgan Parker
Tomorrow’s Woman – Greta Bellamacina (Part 1) (Part 2)