What to the Boricua Does Infertility Mean?
The blood
Between my legs
Another month, another reminder
Of what my body cannot do
Do what bodies do
What to the Boricua
Does infertility mean?
Law 116—burn their tubes
No consent
Our bodies are not sovereign
The hallowed pill—on the backs
Of so many Puerto Rican women
Experiments shadowed as freedom
Choice for some
Bleed what they cannot control
About the Author
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado is a Boricua writer from Queens. She has published essays on mental health, travel, Latinx culture and comics at HuffPost, Bitch Media, and Comicosity. Her poems have appeared in Poydras Review, Post-Traumatically Stressed Feminist, and New Voices anthology series. Currently Jennifer works as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Baruch College, CUNY. You can learn more about her work at www.jennifercaroccio.com or follow her on Twitter @jcaroccio.
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