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Kendra Gayle Lee

In The Face of Patriarchy & Capitalism, Rest is Radical

I struggle with the concept of rest.

Aug 17, 2022

In The Face of Patriarchy & Capitalism, Rest is Radical

Aug 17, 2022

Published in
Writers’ Blokke

No Heroes or Villains

What Brené Brown and Ashley C. Ford showed me about the messiness of being human

Jan 10, 2022

No Heroes or Villains

Jan 10, 2022

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Published in
The Orange Journal

The Myth of the Bossy, Over-Emotional Tween Girl

I refuse to stick my kid in an ill-fitting box that props up the patriarchy

Dec 14, 2021

The Myth of the Bossy, Over-Emotional Tween Girl

Dec 14, 2021

Published in
The Daily Cuppa

I want to be the kind of person that will stick a daisy in a beer can.

Short Form

Dec 14, 2021

I want to be the kind of person that will stick a daisy in a beer can.

Dec 14, 2021

Published in
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

Anyone Smell Fruit Punch?

Write Here — Flash Fiction

Dec 8, 2021

Anyone Smell Fruit Punch?

Dec 8, 2021

Published in
Fearless She Wrote

Thoughts on (My Own) Boobs

One feminist’s perspective on mastectomy and reconstruction

Dec 8, 2021

Thoughts on (My Own) Boobs

Dec 8, 2021

Published in
Evolve

Making Space for the Melancholy & the Joy

Evolve Winter Competition

Dec 5, 2021

Making Space for the Melancholy & the Joy

Dec 5, 2021

Published in
The Daily Cuppa

I promised myself, when I got this dog, that she’d be incredibly well-trained.

(She is not.)

Dec 2, 2021

I promised myself, when I got this dog, that she’d be incredibly well-trained.

Dec 2, 2021

Published in
Writers’ Blokke

Why I Embrace the Challenge of Prompts & Spec Writing

I want to be a productive, contributing Medium member & a better writer

Dec 1, 2021

Why I Embrace the Challenge of Prompts & Spec Writing

Dec 1, 2021

Published in
Motivate the Mind

Wouldn’t You Just Love a Piece of Lemon Ice Box Pie?

For my Southern grandmother, love & food were synonymous

Nov 24, 2021

Wouldn’t You Just Love a Piece of Lemon Ice Box Pie?

Nov 24, 2021

Today, my daughter & I bumped up smack up against toxic masculinity.

I hate him a bit for this, this menacing man who honked and waved as he drove by slowly, looping us four times in our ten minute walk.

Nov 23, 2021

Today, my daughter & I bumped up smack up against toxic masculinity.

Nov 23, 2021

Published in
The Shortform

Surely, a woman’s worth is not measured by her breasts.

So what difference does it make if mine are now silicone (mostly)? They mark me as a warrior, hard won handicraft wrought from the…

Nov 19, 2021

Surely, a woman’s worth is not measured by her breasts.

Nov 19, 2021

Published in
The Shortform

I broke a little bit today.

Details don’t matter. Not really. I’d just had all I could bear.

Nov 9, 2021

I broke a little bit today.

Nov 9, 2021

Published in
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

This Is Not A Poem

Just a jumble of words, an attempt to grasp a tiny piece of you

Nov 8, 2021

This Is Not A Poem

Nov 8, 2021

Published in
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

Until I got sober, I didn’t get mornings.

Good mornings require a rhythm that’s difficult to achieve when there’s a freight train running across your skull daily.

Nov 6, 2021

Until I got sober, I didn’t get mornings.

Nov 6, 2021

Published in
Motivate the Mind

Doing something purely for its own sake, to simply relish it . . . that’s a minor revolution.

Take for instance, my newly minted obsession with true crime podcasts.

Nov 5, 2021

Doing something purely for its own sake, to simply relish it . . . that’s a minor revolution.

Nov 5, 2021

Published in
Zulie’s Writing Challenge

My 9 year old nephew understood precisely what I needed for the two week surgery countdown.

Nov 4, 2021

My 9 year old nephew understood precisely what I needed for the two week surgery countdown.

Nov 4, 2021

This November, I’m Ungrateful

And maybe that’s the most human thing I can be right now.

Nov 3, 2021

This November, I’m Ungrateful

Nov 3, 2021

Sunday Scaries: Book Report of Doom

Fifth Grade Edition

Nov 2, 2021

Sunday Scaries: Book Report of Doom

Nov 2, 2021

Published in
Motivate the Mind

You Are Doing Reading Wrong

I’m a bookseller. I can help.

Oct 30, 2021

You Are Doing Reading Wrong

Oct 30, 2021

Kendra Gayle Lee

Kendra Gayle Lee

Believer in equality. Dedicated to smashing white supremacy & the patriarchy. Mother of 1. Queer. Married to a out, trans-guy. In love with Atlanta, GA.

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