Reclaiming Female Experience and Identity

The poet reflects on her poems that explore a character navigating 21st-century challenges unique to professional women, including unwanted advances in the workplace. She contrasts her experiences as a pre-millennial woman with the evolving standards of acceptability in today's society, highlighting the pressure to conform to new norms. The character grapples with gender complexities and the poet emphasizes the disregard for the body to navigate the oppressive professional world, calling for a reevaluation of women's experiences as collaborators rather than passive victims.