Lucille Elliott is a high school senior in Virginia. She particularly likes writing about femininity, womanhood, and motherhood. She has been published in ASGARD Literary Magazine and Living in Magick Literary Magazine, and has been the recipient of several writing awards in the past few years including a Scholastic Gold Key and two VHSL writing awards. She is also a really, really big fan of Bikini Kill. 

to kathleen hanna, lead singer of bikini kill

before the moshpits, before
the girls squealing angry lyrics:
did you find the same release
in spoken word? did the words
feel the same then as they do now,
echoed by thousands? 

hearts on the backs of our hands,
stars in our eyes; an army that says
fuck camouflage. you wrote slut
on your stomach and told us to write
anything on ours. told us to love
and love wildly, to scream and
scream loud.

once, you writhed on a pole
to make it through school;
did you feel the same power then?
when you threw back your head,
did you see us in the strobe lights?