BlueIris
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Sat Jun-13-09 06:55 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 6/13/09 |
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"Who Said It Was Simple"
There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first and the ladies neither notice nor reject the slighter pleasures of their slavery. But I who am bound by my mirror as well as my bed see causes in color as well as sex
and sit here wondering which me will survive all these liberations.
~Audre Lorde
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CaliforniaPeggy
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Sat Jun-13-09 07:06 PM
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This one puzzles me...
What's it about?
Women as slaves, or sex objects?
Thanks!
:hi:
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BlueIris
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Sat Jun-13-09 07:21 PM
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2. I read this as one woman's struggle to be both black and feminist. |
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As well as the speaker's frustrations with the inherent racism of the early second-wave of feminism.
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Tuesday Afternoon
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Sat Jun-13-09 10:49 PM
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3. That was my take on it, too. Thanks |
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Edited on Sat Jun-13-09 10:50 PM by Tuesday Afternoon
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