. My shoe is a size 6. A wax-coated, high-top canvas hiker. Practical, always dirty and damp. The right zipper hardly closes anymore, just like all the shoes before it. Thrift store gems, busted right zipper. You see, my right psoas, the muscle that runs from my spine down to control my hip, is really tight. A lifetime of trauma â fed by daily microaggressions â wears on a body and on a shoe. Kat Ross's worn size 6 high-top hikers.(Kat Ross) As white feminism laces its shoes this year I implore you to consider the words of Maya Angelou. "There is no greater agony than b...