poem Objectifiable, a poem about how women are degraded every time a man hollers at them or honks their horn at them By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Objectifiable live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem <Objectifiable live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Objectifiable live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Objectifiable live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers finding out she can still be Objectifiable 12/22/15 from men honking horns at her (Vine filmed from a Samsung, from Austin, Texas)

Objectifiable
Janet Kuypers
9/3/13
I’ve experienced it
for I don’t know
how many years,
men degrading women.
When I was walking
down the street today,
a man in an ugly mini-van
stuck his head
out of his window
to holler for me
Wow,
lucky me.
I’m still
objectifiable.

my hand to an anim of jkchair