Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 2015, Vol. 15(1) 45–48 © 2013 SAGE Publications Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1532708613516423 csc.sagepub.com Article The Right to Protest Word Wielding Womb: In Response to Comments Concerning “Legitimate Rape” Battles lines have been drawn in your living room Rhetorically dissecting the target for you So you no longer see a person, but instead only parts It allows the causalities of the war To become unintended consequences Cultural shrapnel to easily dismiss As the biological clock goes tick tick tick Stop Manifesting instead into a time bomb Blowing up politically Losing body parts to platforms That don’t represent me But instead dissect me Into pieces, my agency lays anesthetized Unmoved Questioning the legitimacy Of the words attacking my psyche From the mouth of power Redefining rape in our living rooms Wondering why I still feel violated As I see choice bound And gagged In the corner Choking Suffocating On the ether of political egos Prophesizing that God’s will Is to redefine creation No longer will man be born from dust or rib But force And Violence Not born in his image But instead an attacker Annihilating the definition of creation Procreation Now avoiding consent in any form Leaving me as nothing more than a word wielding womb That forgot the pre-suffrage adage That women are to be seen and not heard The Right to Choose Mississippi Burning aka Personhood Amendments Mississippi is burning again 50 years later As politicians and people are unwilling to speak up Voices muted In protection of person hood You are asking the voters to redefine life play God with the definition of creation not created of clay or rib instead created of ballot person hood protected at all cost Not considering the ramifications of policies blindsided to precedents 516423CSC XX X 10.1177/1532708613516423Cultural Studies <span class="symbol" cstyle="symbol">↔</span> Critical MethodologiesArellano research-article 2013 1 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, NE, USA Corresponding Author: Amy Arellano, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 432 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA. Email: amyarellano@gmail.com Word Wielding Womb: Using the Body to Fight the War on Women Amy Arellano 1 Abstract The “war on women” has been a socio-political issue and an arena for feminist scholars’ social critiques. The phrase gained media attention with “legitimate rape” remarks within the 2012 election. This piece looks at how this neo-liberal commentary has affected my personal agency through legislating my womb without permission, thus, rhetorically oppressing my personal agency through legal precedent. Keywords autoethnography, war on women, investigative poetry at UNIV NEBRASKA LIBRARIES on February 10, 2015 csc.sagepub.com Downloaded from