It's both, but start with the personal.

Yes, it’s a feminist anthem — but only because it’s first a personal reflection.

Julia Jacklin wrote “Head Alone” about her own experience of being told her body looked like it was asking for it. The specificity is what makes it land. She’s not trying to write a thesis on consent. She’s just saying, “This is what happened to me, and this is how I feel about it.”

That’s the thing about good political art. It doesn’t start with politics. It starts with one person telling the truth about their life. The politics are just what happens when enough people recognize their own experience in it.

So yes, call it a feminist anthem if you want. But the reason it works is that Jacklin made it personal first. The anthem came after.

That’s the trick: speak for yourself, and everyone who needed to hear it will know you’re speaking for them too.