For Remember Rosie Jimenez National Mobilization
for Reproductive Justice Rally and Speak-out,
San Francisco, California, October 3, 2021
Women who plant rice
Women who sew pants
Women who weave rugs
Women who compose songs
Women who launder, who wash and wash
Women who clean rooms, who dig ditches
Women who agitate for a living wage
Women who give their bodies
Women who invent
Women who dance
Women who work
And all women work
Women who sacrifice sleep
Women who weld, who paint, who doctor
Women who see with their ears, hear with their eyes
Women who resist, their brains and bodies in united fronts
Women who build coalitions
Women who organize, strategize, materialize
Women who teach, who learn
Women who are migrants, refugees
escaping violence against their bodies,
their children’s lives
Women who fight against sexual slavery
Women who abort, who choose
Women who act for clean water, clear skies
For education for all
Women who lead
To end wars that promulgate profits, destruction
Women who cross borders
Women she they we
Women of the world unite
We are waves, rivers, mountains
We who cover the earth
Fighting to be free.
Nellie Wong
© 2021 Nellie Wong