STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
JM HUCK
You are a uniformed teenage girl riding the train
to school and think it’s cute (kawaii) to flash your undies
at the long-haired white man seated across from you
You are a mom, but you were once employed,
perhaps a medical doctor or scientist,
your education now a relic of perfunctory aspirations
You are a social worker, lacking numbers on the incidence
of domestic violence yet well-versed in statistics
from World Economic Forum screaming: Gender lag!
You are a skirt-wearing politician that somehow attracted
enough votes but remain ill-suited to change mandatory
high heels, or other sexist aspects of the status quo
You are a school teacher and every day
you are either brushed by your male superiors or butt-
poked by the clasped hands of your pupils
You are a female bartender observing mating rituals,
hearing every woman say “impossible” (muri),
only to end up, as predicted, going home with them
You are a part-time worker in a pink/red town
scrubbing backs of silver-helmet salarymen
equipped with hyper sex drives and prawns for penises
You are a female gaijin (foreigner) on a robotic exam
table at the gynecologist’s, where a curtain at your waist
separates you and your doctor and your translator
Judi Mae “JM” Huck is an arts administrator currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the Clark County Poet Laureate coordinator and a teaching artist for both literary and visual arts. Follow her on Instagram @bandittrl.
