Tag: social commentary
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What would you tell God, she asks
What would you tell God, she asks What would you tell God if you were at Heaven’s doorsteps? for all the good it does to be called articulate words don’t shape themselves in my mouth. Because it’s not what would I tell God. It’s what do I ask and where do I begin. Like– Why…
Claudia Rojas
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Delete All
The digital age is delivered through screens lit brighter than the streets where women “asked for it.” Your digital presence is filtered, fitted to your taste of self-disclosure to your choice of entering compressed pixels. There is anonymity and there is the illusion of a moment well-captured, well-lived. There is loudness wrapped in a tamed…
Claudia Rojas
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Drunken Puppeteers
Some men shoot deer for the sake of shaking the silence in the air. Some men change course and shoot their hate into a woman’s dignity, these are the men who believe in entitlement to a woman’s body because there are laws and beliefs set in place that question her worth and control that question…
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Dear Nora, words from your husband
The weeks after you left, I started writing you letters every day. I have a pile of them, aging with dust. I don’t know what you want, what kind of wonderful thing you expect. It must not be enough to say that I miss you, that you are more than my little-something-endearing but thoughtless-name. The children…
Claudia Rojas
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fightin’ #timeisnow
“It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.” -Andrea Gibson, spoken word poet and activist I often admire the immigrant’s ambition for it take guts to leave behind an entire world carrying on your back the weight of an American dream and at arriving watching your dream unfold into…
Claudia Rojas 