https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/opinion/letters/women-erased.html

BOTH/AND

To claim half the species

is erased if you ac-

knowledge 1% as

sisters is to embrace

the calculus of

scarcity

from under your captor’s knee

a desperate screamfest

in a gladiatorial mudpit

below smugly burning

patrician cigars

***

To imply Better far

a hundred child

suicides than a slight

dimming of our

lesser light is

as selfish as it is

stupid and cruel

***

Say: “women”

“cis” “trans”

“folks with wombs” —

Both/and