Posted in Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Love Between Women, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sisterhood, Womanism, Women and Disability, in my language on Jan 3rd, 2009
(Note: Jeyoani actually wrote this as a comment in another thread, but it’s really good and I thought it should be its own post. Thanks, Jeyoani! Heart)
It stings to be told – worse, truly realize – you’ve been privileged and are part of institutionalized racism and part of what is keeping it going.
Most good people [...]
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Posted in Deciding to Live, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Love Between Women, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on Dec 31st, 2008
I limped around tightlipped through the months it took me to find a job in another city and disappear. I took a bus to that city and spoke to no one, signed the papers that made me a low-level government clerk, and wound up sitting in a motel room eating peanut butter sandwiches so I [...]
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don’t make so much
noise dear
the nurses say to the woman
three days in labor
white scum on her lips
outside the streets are hot
and flat and infinite
and time is only marked
by the dilation of pain
you’re acting like a little girl
the doctor tells her
you don’t hurt
hips like a cow
you were born to bear
his own stomach
is pegged across his thighs
like [...]
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At the centre of the earth there is a mother.
If any of us who are her children choose to die
she feels a grief like a wound deeper
than any of us can imagine.
She puts her hands to her face
like this:
her two palms open on her cheeks
Put them there like she does
Her fingers cover her eyes
She presses [...]
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The whole weight of history bears down
on the awful mother’s shoulders
Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Inquisition
each massacre of innocents
her own childhood
and the childhood of her mother
and the childhood of her child.
What can she do?
She remembers.
The child’s drawing, the lost
mittens, the child
cold, the awful mother shouting
the child’s story of shadows
in her room, the child waiting
the awful mother
waiting, [...]
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Posted in Love, Love Between Women, Sisterhood on Dec 20th, 2008
Talkers in a dream doorway
by Judy Grahn
You leaned your body in the doorway
(it was a dim NY hall)
I was leaving as usual — on my way.
You had your head cocked to the side
in your most intelligent manner
eyes glistening with provocation,
gaze direct as always,
and more, as though wanting something,
as though I could have bent and kissed [...]
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More than 75 countries throughout the world criminalize lesbian and gay relationships. To put as fine a point as possible on it, for women to love women in more than 75 nations is a criminal offense. (As it is a criminal offense for men to love men as well, but this is Women’s Space [...]
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Above is a video interview of Shekinah Mountainwater, a beautiful, wonderful woman. She was interviewed July 9, 2007, and died a little over a month later, on August 12, 2007, of breast cancer. I’m reading her book Ariadne’s Thread at the moment and am enjoying it so, so much. Like so many [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Nov 21st, 2008
I have been intending to write a post about the way so many feminists, leftists, liberals and progressives consummately misunderstand conservative Christianity and conservative Christian women in particular. I keep feeling overwhelmed by this writing project and so deciding against it. But given the across-the-board anger among women over the misogyny of the [...]
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Posted in Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Heroes, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating on Nov 10th, 2008
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. …I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen.
..there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million [...]
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