Women Empowering Women
What is art? Is it that painting sitting on your bedroom wall? Or that poem you wrote in tenth grade because your mom pissed you off? Or that Emily Dickinson piece you absolutely hated because it made no sense? Or the family drawing your five year old cousin made that still makes you feel things?…
Diverse representation does not equal accurate and equitable representation. Having diverse characters in literature is not enough when those characters are still being portrayed with stereotypes and harmful cliches, are token characters with no depth, or exist merely for trauma porn. This is where The Poet X comes in.
While being a familiar place, the supermarket itself is a place that has grown to become one of the places that cause hardships for families. Specifically due to food deserts, swamps and mirages. These areas are riddled throughout Northern America, specifically in Canada.