Author / Gabriela Senno

Gabriela Senno ‘22 studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at gabisenno@wustl.edu.
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  • Fear

    Fear  By Gabriela Senno    Fear wakes up sweating, simultaneously hot  and cold, too delirious to tell the difference.  He quietly gets up, dresses, and waits at the exit  of his modest home, looking forward, into a community  he once thought he knew, now unrecognizable.    Fear idles, works up the nerve to leave, &…

  • Wearing My Womanhood

    My womanhood wears me like a skirt too tight  in the wintertime, muscles shrinking into the claustrophobic  cloth, too cold to believe that a woman is still  inside of it    My womanhood suffocates, each leg crammed in,  worn out like each letter of my name  by the men who say it     My womanhood…