i'm a girl kind of in the way that dandelions are weeds:

technically true, but not quite right.

i'm a dandelion, but a dandelion in the way that children see them:

as little pockets of sunshine sprouting from the earth.

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that's all to say that i guess my issue is less in being a woman

and more in the way that society perceives them.

we have this mold for what a woman is or isn't.

and i don't feel like i quite fit into it.

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i feel woman-adjacent:

woman enough to embrace my femininity

but not enough for the word to feel anything but foreign

she/they feels like a recognition of the fact that i don't quite fit into one category or another

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i'm not a flower

or a weed

and frankly, i don't care for labels;

a dandelion grows regardless of what you call it

(inspired by, and quoted from, this tiktok by @anna.myakushina)