Herstory from Siglo XXI by The Liberation Music Collective

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

More like miseducation of boys in Steubenville, the force of will

Making victims out of girls for just lying still

Oh no, Mr. Supreme Court justice

Making rules about our bodies like you just can’t trust us

Well screw this, even Malala Yousafzai

Fighting the Taliban for women and children’s rights

Would earn for a man’s dollar just nickels and dimes

And could be sold in child slavery if it came her time



Now get this—how many women you see on this stage, three?

Well the three of us are stronger than the whole U.S. army

“If Eve by herself could turn the world upside down

Then together us women will turn it back right round”

You know those words? They’re from sojourner truth

A slave in her youth

But with the confidence to rise and say “Ain’t I a woman?”

History don’t treat the Henriettas like the Henrys

But women help build everything from nations down to families



Take feminism back from the hands of the academics

Pay some pussy pushers for the politics and their polemics

Guys who think that if she wearing jeans it’s fine to rape her

Why do I feel like it’s still the world of Donald Draper

La illaha illa allah sisters

Only got one master misters

Don’t you even call us bitches

If I cook you wash the dishes

Oh…gonna pass it like Pelosi

Gonna pen it like Adichie

Gonna emanate break the state fate the hate that holds the gate

To the sky above the glass ceiling, cuz we’re progressing

We’re not screaming for no reason, this ain’t PMS-ing

Rush and Glenn can take their diatribes to the MRA’s

Cuz Lilly Ledbetter better finally get her raise



We are here for the struggle the working mom

For the girls who get raped on the night of prom

Where are you for wives who cannot choose how many kids they bear?

Where are you for women segregated from their halls of prayer?

Until we live in a world where all women can drive cars

And none suffer from FGM or obstetric fistulas

Until rape is not used as a weapon of war

Until every little girl knows what a textbook is for

We cannot say that we live in a free world

We cannot say that inequality is cured

When half the sky lives under fear and oppression

We must bring to justice each for his transgressions



These aren’t the angry ramblings of some liberal femi-nazi

It’s human rights for all—from New York to Benghazi

To start we’ve got to point out all the causes of iniquity

But down the road the hope is that we’ll all have human dignity

So remember, treat your sister like an equal

And recall what MLK said while fighting for his people

Say it once say it twice yell it out scream it

Hate cannot fight hate, it’s only love that can defeat it

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