This week, Ritu (https://www.instagram.com/nosferitu/) and I (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/) discuss our respective poems, "I am the Desi man’s Fetish" and "Same Shoes," and gender stereotypes.

Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of October 4th.

Links to the topics we touched on:1. Anti-homosexual laws in United Arab Emirates and Kenya:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/15/singer-in-the-1975-defies-uaes-anti-gay-law-by-kissing-man-at-concert and https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1SU1M7-OZATP2. Menstruation and wild animals land and sea:https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/grizzlybear-menstrual-odor.htm and https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/reduce-risk/menstruation/3. Cow kills in India: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/cow-vigilantes-in-india-killed-at-least-44-people-report-finds4. Rape list on a US Navy submarine: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/17/sailors-created-rape-list-aboard-navys-2nd-sub-integrate-women.html5. Historic all-female space foiled by wrong-size spacesuit: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/news/nasa-scraps-all-female-spacewalk-because-space-suit-wrong-size-ncna987296

Picture of Ritu Kurien by Matthew Pascucci

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