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When I was around five years old, I

prosecution for wanting to take charge of

believed I could behave, wear, and achieve

their bodies and reproductive health. It's

anything I wanted. There was no notion in my

going to take a lot of work, consistency, and

mind of being the “weaker sex”. I wanted to

bravery to carry on the fight but I have faith

play as hard as the boys played. If my clothes

in our gender. We got this.

were bothering rwise. I was made to it was for my grandmother. There is a lot to do still but let’s not allow this diminish the progress we’ve made. All around the world women continue to be treated as inferior. Some of them killed by showing their hair. Some threaten with

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Go ahead. Break the rules.


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