I cannot dwell on my womanhood too long.
\nI cannot dwell on my queerness too long.
\nI must dwell on my circumstances
\nBut I fear destroying myself over the grief I find there.<\/p>\n
I was built
\nAnd I feel corrupt for it.<\/p>\n
It seems I will always feel corrupt, incorrect, or malformed.<\/p>\n
I grieve for myself before I have died.
\nI grieve for those like me who have.
\nI grieve for those like me who will spend their lovely lives grieving.<\/p>\n
I should not have to.
\nI should not have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tessa Renken I cannot dwell on my womanhood too long. I cannot dwell on my queerness too long. I must dwell on my circumstances But I fear destroying myself over the grief I find there. I was built And I feel corrupt for it. It seems I will always feel corrupt, incorrect, or malformed. I Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions\/719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}