My Eyelids Are Pink My Hole Is Black 38x46 #Original #Artwork by Amy Daniels is the second piece in a series that I’ve begun. For the past three and a half years I have been immersive in encompassing myself as a woman after having a #Hysterectomy. Those parts of a woman that are the most defining of what it means to be female were stripped away from me. It was either me or them and I overwhelmingly chose #Me. Inside and out I am #All woman and nothing less. But it took me a minute to get to this point. Really to accept this point.

For many years people have tried to understand the celestial Black Hole. They’ve never experienced it but think they understand it. Seeing is not necessarily believing and experiencing makes that shit more and more real for the person who is Brave enough to go through and come out on the other side whole. I am Brave. I am a witness. I’ve come out stretched in my ideals about what it means to be a woman. I am strong.

Yes my eyelids are pink for a reason. I have been and have fully embraced being a woman for over a half a century. I’ve learned and loved every moment. Trying to control the narrative and explain how a woman should have to fit into your perspective without the experience of being female should be taken with a grain of salt. Unless you know for sure then step off and back the fuck up. Be more sensitive to your limitations about women while we as women grow and encompass this beautiful experience we actually call life…As Women.