Gilded Glamour

Gilded Glamour

The rich are dancing while our rights are under attack

I think back to the words of Suzzane Collins

We played Hunger Games after school

Ten years later I know, she was Cassandra in disguise

I want to dip my protest signs in gold

Sign petitions encrusted in diamonds

Send Vouge reporters out into the streets

Tell us, who is the best dressed at the protest?

We will not let some Comstock Law Men tell us what to do with our bodies

We will be the Dr. Sara Blakeslee Chases

      the Angela Haywoods

We will fight for what is rightfully ours

Our bodies are ours

Keep your hands off

It felt so surreal to watch the Met Gala and the leaked draft from the Supreme Court happen simultaneously. Writing is how I process things, how I let my emotions out. This poem is all the grief, all the anger I have within me. Here is a link to a master doc of how you can support abortion rights: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-aDTsZXnKhMcrDmtcD35aWs00gw5piocDhaFy5LKDY/mobilebasic

Sources used for writing this poem. If you don’t know what the Comstock law was, or who Dr. Sara Blakeslee Chase and Angela Haywoods were, these are for you:

Joan Waugh's Gilded Age Homepage, www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/waughj/classes/gildedage/private/protest_and_reform/documents/protest_and_reform_document_001.html.

20, Amy Sohn

July. “How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception.” Literary Hub, 19 July 2021, lithub.com/how-anthony-comstock-enemy-to-women-of-the-gilded-age-attempted-to-ban-contraception/.