the girl who writes
from the wound.
diverse · twenty-three · @withdiverse
"I write so that girls in the dark feel less alone."
— diverse, @withdiversea relentless
moonchild.
I write for the people who learned softness the hard way. Diverse Writes is a digital archive of girlhood, grief, healing, identity, loneliness, and survival.
I am twenty-three years old. I have been writing since I was old enough to understand that words could hold things that nothing else could.
I write from the mouth of the wound — not to stay in the wound, but to map it. To leave something for whoever comes after.
This is not just poetry. This is testimony. This is the record of a girl who survived and refused to make it look easy.
how I write
write from the wound
Every poem begins in the place that still hurts. Not to perform pain, but to make it legible — to find its exact shape and give it language.
for the girls in the dark
The reader is always a girl at 2am who needs to feel less alone. Every word is written with her in mind, her specific loneliness, her specific survival.
softness is not weakness
The poems are tender because tenderness is the bravest thing. To remain soft after everything that tried to harden you — that is the whole of the work.
the ritual of writing
Every poem is a ritual: I take the wound, I look at it, I find its true shape. I say: you are real. I say: you happened. And then I make it into something a stranger can carry.
"this is the only magic I have ever had. it is enough. it is more than enough. it is the reason I am still here."— // 034, The Ritual of Writing
a begging to be believed
Girlhood Is
Like Godhood
by Diverse
@withdiverse
Girlhood Is
Like Godhood
A Begging to Be Believed — 50 poems in 6 parts
This collection is for the girls who were told they were too much, too loud, too broken. For the daughters of absent fathers. For the ones who survived quietly and the ones still deciding which they are.
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