Sophie Segura was born in Ireland and has lived in Argentina since 2006. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in About Place, Irish print and online journals Banshee, The Well Review and The Honest Ulsterman, and an anthology, Autonomy (New Binary Press, 2018). She has also written (as Sophie Parker) for The Irish Times, Time Out Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires Herald.


Also by Sophie Segura: Two Poems Elevenses

Poets Resist
Edited by Cody Stetzel
September 14, 2018

Sophie Segura

Declaration of the Lactating Woman

Show us our maize, our beans, our breasts sold back to us as family-size buckets as eighteen-dollar power breakfasts as inferior to powdered approximations. This is New & Improved. This is Pediatrician-Approved. This is Freedom in an aluminum can. Crazy Horse fed from the breasts of all his Mothers. Deolinda’s motherless son survived in the Cuyan desert, her dress unbuttoned. A woman with no last name promised me I was sustenance enough. A man with a PediaSure calendar showed me I was resistance. This is the taste of home in a wilderness. This is Nourishment. This is Sovereignty. This is the strong medicine.


Note: The US delegation to the May 2018 UN-affiliated World Health Assembly, in apparent support of formula companies’ interests, is reported to have threatened government officials from other countries in an attempt to weaken a resolution to encourage breastfeeding worldwide.

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