Resting Witch Face

“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity." 
​
– Audre Lorde

I wrote this in a journal a couple years back: 

Anger speaks loudly
never questions if she is heard.
When worn on a black woman’s face
People listen.

Now, I am not condoning violence here. We are all multifaceted and allowed to carry an array of emotions within us. Anger being one of them.     

When I speak of anger I am referring to the fuel that it ignites within us. 
A  fuel that can be redirected and repurposed into something uplifting and constructive. 
Anger can push us  through  events where no other emotion feels appropriate as a reaction. 

I am allowed to be angry.
Just as much as I am a womyn and just as much as I am black.

These three elements combined are more than an archetype.  
More than a source of amusement to the very power structure that created it.  

 Our resting witch face reminds people that...

    Anger is  
a part of our
journey.
Because anger is real
and
it
is always
relevant.

---