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Alix Olson
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You wanna give me a shiner
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Cause I look like this
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And I got a vagina?
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See, I'm familiar with this Gender Game,
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I've played this war many times before
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On this playground called my identity
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When puberty hit like dodge balls
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And freeze-tagged as sissy-fagged
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My best friend dissed me- common interests,
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Different anatomy.
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See, vagina meant quieter, caretaker, peacemaker.
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Vagina meant keeping lips closed, keeping bodies posed.
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Vagina was silent dolls and no action toys,
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Vagina was punches when I played with the boys.
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So I learned to take it in the stomach, I learned to Fight to make friends.
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And as I learned to make that bullshit end,
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Vagina became a slippery slide for my little finger
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Vagina became a quiver that lingered,
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Vagina became what I looked for, worked for, stood for,
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I "Viva La Vagina'd all over the place!"
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I revitalized Vagina's grace, I discovered vagina's taste.
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I became a fine diner. Put my face in vagina after vagina.
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And then I was faced with some other lipservice
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Putting me in my place
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That Vagina should not be liberator.
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But dictator.
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Of the shoes we wear. The hair we crop.
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The palms we clasp. The way we walk.
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The space we use. The threads we choose.
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Well, I refuse to follow suit.
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Cause I gotta confess, my straight jacket is a dress.
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You know it used to be a crime
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To wear clothes that didn't scream
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"Vagin-A!"
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I wear these shoes so I can move with my own easy spirit.
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I don't shave my legs cause
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It gets cold. Besides, my legs rebel
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Against the bloody hell of
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Shaved and sliced
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And since when is my body hair something to judge?
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Is furry a male privilege-
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Or a patriarchal plot by gillette?
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I don't cut my nails cause I've got hammering to do.
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I'm pounding out my path as I cruise this gender landscape,
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As I peruse the choice between silence and
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Violence.
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Matthew Shepard was bent, so you hang him to a fence,
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Brandon Teena was murdered as a liar for hiding his
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Vagina. And I can't even sit
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In a restaurant without causing a stir:
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"Whaddya have sir? Whaddya have sir? Whaddya have sir?"
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I have a Vagina!
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Yes, I've got a vagina and you can still call me sir,
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Cause I can't cure
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This visual disease of yours.
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But I don't give a damn about "Sir" or "Ma'am".
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So, in the "F" or "M" boxes they give,
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I forgive myself for not fitting in
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And blame the world for lack of clarity.
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I deliberate.
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Penis? I got one y'know. I write down "d" for dildo,
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I write down "D" for
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"Don't know," I fill in "F" for
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fi-fie-foe male!
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Yes, I'm a giant Vagina!
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And I am too big for these boxes they give,
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Too real for this Gender Toyland
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Built over soiled contradictions
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With Barbie bricks and Ken cornerstones
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Built over the skulls and bones of our Transgendered Ancestors.
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Danger:
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She-men working above. And beyond. You.
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Yes, we are Deconstruction Workers.
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We are exposing unfounded bedrocks
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That bed us to one sex, that wed us to one gender.
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We are overturning those stones,
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We are throwing them back.
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We are making revolution
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A gender evolution.
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We are invoking strategy, we are revoking shame.
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And we are calling it. We are calling it
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Refusal to be Named.
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