Ode to #FEAS by Dr Red Ruby Scarlet

Feminists
All
These
#FEASy
Feisty
Femmes

Though
Our
Collective
Kweernessesesses
Eclipses
Gendered
Femmememeses
Four
Multiplicities
Moar
Than
More
Moreish
Maids
Made
By
Our
Own
Same
Same
Different
Transmogrific
Paradigms

Winding
Up
With
Withlings
Battling
Sexist
Things
Entwingled
Entwined
Reminding
Us
That
Pervasive
Patriarchy
Poses
Under
The
Bed
When
We
Wish
For
Equity
Instead

Can’t
We
Take
The
World
Our
For
A
Feminist
Feast
To
Seduce
The
Beasts
Beastly
Ways
Of
Saying
We
Are
Knot
Enuf
N
All
That
Essentialist
Vulvarable
Stuff

Snot
Cool
Two
Underestimate
Girls
Mattering
Minds
Cause
Of
Their
Academic
Kin
N
Kind

Kindred
Et
Al
All
Critical

‘Cause
Cause
Causal
Know
It
All
Knowledges
Thill
Bill

But
Willing
Billing
Society
For
I’ll
Will
Will
Will
A
Gendered
Spill
To
Equity
Hee
Hee
Her

Serving
Pleasures
Of
Thinking
As
Our
Fight
Might
Pose
A
Panty
Hose
Revolution
To
Cleanse
Our
Intestinal
Ablution
In
A
Deleuzian
Fold

Golden
Egg
Haptic
Wiggle
Wedge
Tween
N
Twixt
Our
Fleshy
Legs

Fingering
Thoughts
Watching
Shorts
Cinematic
Cohorts
Filming
Everyday
Life

Reconfiguring
G
Strings
Nestled
In
Fecund
Foldings
Holding
Social
Epistemologies
Axiom
Um
ॐ

Interspecies
Entwinglements
Make
Worlds
Worldly
When
Rivers
Flow
Fru Fru
Florentine
Histories
Of
Ancient
Mysteries
Mysterious
Only
To
Those
Whose
Radar
Ain’t
Set
Wide
Ride
With
Worms
Squirm
With
Birds
And
Feel
Earthly
Grounded
Sounded
Solidarity

Be
Gone
Oppressive
Regimes
You’ve
Seen
Your
Days
Now
It’s
#FEASy
Time
And
Space

Spatial
Sharing
No
More
Disparing
Dichotomised
Deleteriously
Device
Stead
‘Twould

Nice
To
Twinkle
Brightly
Rightly
Sew
With
Luminous
Luminaries
Leading
The
Charge
‘Cause
Feminist
Forays
Are
At
Large

Sounded By Red Ruby Scarlet

Dr Red Ruby Scarlet is an activist, artist, early childhood teacher-researcher, consultant and academic. Red has been working in early childhood for over 25 years and is devoted to creative, imaginative, inclusive practices that promote dignity and integrity in early childhood. Red has developed curriculum and learning frameworks nationally and internationally. Red has published widely foregrounding the stories of the numerous ‘teacher-research’ and ‘research with children’ projects Red has lead and contributed to across the world.

Red is currently the Creative Director of MultiVerse – an organisation devoted to creating professional development and resourcing for early childhood that is committed to arts, anti-bias approaches, inclusive pedagogies, and curriculum. Red plays a leadership role in the Social Justice In Early Childhood group.