let her be human today

#SayHerName like news

#SayHerName like poetry

#SayHerName like solidarity

#SayHerName like truth

#SayHerName and know who fights for you…
 


Pronounce it like your first words

Let her name roll off the tongue, deliberate

like pop culture, like love, like opinion

 

Annunciate her syllables with respect,

acknowledge that some hashtags never came,

never got printed, were never trending

(Acknowledge also that even hashtags

have the option of exploitation)
 


Sing her name like song,

let it glide in the air unapologetic and uncomfortable

and knowingly so:

Justice hasn’t come for them

Justice must come for my daughters
 


#SayHerName in all the tenses that exist:

Past, present-past, conditional, present

#SayHerName like you are just learning it

#SayHerName unlike a campaign

she was born politicized,

let her be human today.

 

#SayHerName like daughter, sister, mother,

grandmother, friend

#SayHerName in the name of intersectionality

#SayHerName knowing it is not only her name

but rather the letters in between that tell more stories

unheard and unseen. 

#SayHerName like we didn’t have to be reminded that women exist

and continually fight for rights that never truly trickle down to our Queendom.

 

#SayHerName like warrior

#SayHerName like Royalty

#SayHerName and know that

just saying her name is only the beginning