MY HUNGER AS A GIRL IS HEAVILY ROOTED IN MY BLOCKED SOLAR PLEXUS - SAANVI PATTIREDDY '28

the color of my hunger is red. and obviously, to become a girl is to understand all the hunger oscillating inside your body. to turn eighteen and there comes the girlhood spectrum where you can’t be your mother’s daughter or a friend. you only belong to yourself without sacrifices and a deal. when you’re a girl, you are born with an innate hunger for validation, for being complex and being seen. here is my mouth and i feed myself a sense of identity, my girlhood, and my worth. the feeling of my hunger is fire. burning in the pits of my stomach, my naval is clean. it doesn’t help if i know the four types of hunger. or i know i consume female rage. manipura, my third chakra says: eat. burn. set fire. apples and cherries. marbles and heat. my appetite isn’t full. i want to digest the earth whole.