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.