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Celebrating the Feminine: HerStories

Poems (Text)

My Cultural Femininity- One Perspective

By Luciana Castro, Skyline College Coordinator of World languages/ Professor of Spanish

Many women cultivate womanhood

Culturally this is appreciated by all

Feminine women were expected and glorified all the time

One woman was always the symbol of it all: the Mother

Perspectives varied but they were not shared by all

Moms, mamás, mommies, mas, mothers married and unmarried

Cooking, cleaning, controlling, communicating, captivating it all

Fastly, festive, frazzled, fantastic feminine females

Operating ornaments only on one part of their oracles

Pondering, possessive, poetic, and prophetic powers for their paths

My mastery of motherhood as the major manner to matter

Created in my core a culturally feminine female passionate person

Feeling feelings in a festive and fancy form

Only in one organization of occupied parts of petrified persons

Powerful places and cultural masters perpetuating the femininity all in one perspective that could not be the only proper one.