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Kate Bush's Ten-Ton Flower Bomb

Turns out you CAN be feminine and strong!

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Alicia Dara
May 18, 2026
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The ferocious pressure and exuberant burst of Spring has always felt feminine. Every year I feel its quickening in my blood, in my womanhood, yet I still don’t know how to define these things. What the hell is femininity? What is womanhood, and, for that matter, who decides?

Even as a teen girl in the 80s, when rigid gender codes ruled everything, I had …

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