

They are taught that the worms are gross. “I don’t want to be a boy, I want to be a girl sometimes.” And I say okay.Ĭhildren are taught fear. And they still love you with all 5 hearts.” I say, “they are just like people sometimes not a boy or a girl but something in between, or sometimes they’re both on different days. They are all right, and they are all wrong, because worms are both. Then I say, “are you holding a boy worm or a girl worm” and they guess. The wonder they have for it is so real - and I say, did you know they have 5 hearts and love you with all of them. If they promise to be gentle and not tug, they can hold one of those beautiful squiggly caretakers of dirt. Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

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