Female voices 

My voice

Sounds female

My mind

Is of the humankind

Female voices

Misogyny denied

Tried to hush

Built a barricade

Female voices

Rise

Unapologetic

For this disruption

My voice is not alone

It has been raised by the past

Connected to the present

Spoken for the future 

Imagining a peaceful world

Women’s voices are heard

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Female voices speaks to the collective force of women’s expression — affirming female speech as intergenerational, defiant and necessary in the ongoing struggle against silencing, exclusion and misogyny.


This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.

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