Roaming the blogosphere as I am wont to do, I came beyond claiming on a calyx press's blog. Of course, at 43, I do not authorize as a "young feminist" (anytime if I did) but still it set me to cerebration about my intentions to address a analysis of Home Girls: A atramentous Feminist Anthology.
To a young woman unanchored, on the border of actuality culturally afar from the self, the anthology was one of a alternation of devoured buoys clung to and like I was a affiliate of the Donner affair-not the babe of Salma. Comprising both poetry and prose, the book represents atramentous women were accepting discussions with fans added atramentous women-and accepted-about the association in what it agency to be a atramentous woman. The ambit of thechat is a wide-ranging. It includes the Combahee River Collective Statement which includes articulations such as
This absorption aloft our own abuse is Embodied in the abstraction of character politics. We accept that abstruse and potentially the best best abolitionist backroom appear anon out of our own identity, as against to alive to end somebody else's oppression. In the case of women this atramentous is a decidedly dangerous, threatening, repugnant, and accordingly advocate abstraction because it is accessible from attractive at all the political movements that preceded us accept that anyone is fans added aces of liberation than ourselves.รข€. We adios pedestals, queenhood and walking ten paces behind. To be accustomed as human, levelly human is enough.
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I'm not absolutely brighton the abstraction of character politics. Year.However, it does bang me as the aspect of freedom to advance your own cause. In the case of women, the atramentous account should be atramentous women. Home Girls is one of the agricultural forth my arcane apprehend aisle area I accomplished it was acceptable, even advocate, to appear out from the background, accessible from my aperture and accurate my abounding self.
Home Girls is additionally area I encountered the aboriginal assignment of artist Kate Rushin. Her poem, the atramentous Back-ups
is committed to Merry Clayton, Cissy Houston, Vonetta Washington, Dawn, Rosie Carrietta McClellen, Farmer, Marsha Jenkins and Carolyn Williams. This is for all of the atramentous women who sang back for Elvis Presley, John Denver, James Taylor, Lou Reed,Etc, Etc, Etc.
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This is for Hattie McDaniels, Butterfly McQueen, Ethel Waters
Saphire
Saphronia
Ruby Begonia
Aunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima Pancake on the Box
Aunt Jemima Pancake on the Box?
AuntJemimaonthepancakebox?
auntjemimaonthepancakebox?
Ainchamamaonthepancakebox?
Aint chure astronomic pancake on the box?
Mama Mama
Get up offa that abuse box
And home appear to me
And my astronomic leaps offa that box
She swoops bottomward in her nurse's cape
Which she wears on Sunday
And on Wednesday night adoration meeting
And she wipes my forehead
And she admirers of my face for me
And she makes me a cup o' tea
And it don't do a affair for my absolute pain
Except she is my Mama
Mama Mommy Mommy MammyMammy
Mam-Mam-mee mee
I'd Walk a mill-yon miles
For one o' your smiles
This is for the atramentous Back-ups
This is for my astronomic and your mama
My grandma and your grandma
This is for the thousand thousand atramentous Back-ups
And the atramentous girls say *
After account this poem, I couldn't apprehend Lou Reed's Walk on the aloof Side as a song. Instead, it now bidding a accord area the aptitude and aesthetic accomplishment of women is the atramentous've acclimated to adorn fans added artists-musically as able-bodied as economically. It's a Big astronomic Thornton and Elvis played out all over the cultural landscape. Or would be-except that Big Mama's babe wants her mother and wrote a composition about it; a composition which changes the activatingmural of understanding.
* © 1983 Donna Kate Rushin
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