Women as the second sex are still in a subordinate position and the paradigmatic victims of symbolic violence. It is characteristic of symbolic violence that the victims unconsciously accept and perpetuate it (Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant), and since woman is the Other within the totality where both members are necessary to each other (Simone de Beauvoir), liberation is possible only with a radical rejection of the "phallocentric" view of the world and in literature through "women's" writing "in white ink", based on the other woman, the mother (Hélène Cixous). I describe an example of such practice in the Slovene literary space, "Female Poets on Female Poets", a monthly gathering at which female poets are read, and conclude with a short presentation of three poems from three recent collections: Dolgo smo čakali na dež Alja Adam, Delta Kaja Teržan and Ostani Nataša Velikonja.
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