and it comes off as positively stupid to talk about an author living under death threats as if she is working under conditions that resemble those a Swedish author work under
Okay, I admit I was maybe a tad confused on - not what you were saying, but how to contextualise it in my mind. I think it's a combination of not having seen the show and just waking up. But then you said that, and there was this horrible clunk in my head were everything just sort of fell into place.
"I just don't think poets care that much about political issues." No. No no, no no no. Do they even read poetry outside their own little bubble? I'm not a big, big poetry fan (though that is slowly changing, mostly thanks to you) but even I know how much fail is in that sentence. It practically screams privileged.
Ours is not a world where voices are allowed equal weight, and quite frankly I'm beyond tired of having to walk around in a world where white straight dudes get to speak for me but I somehow get to speak for Kitty, because my white trumps her black even when we're both more or less queer women. None of it makes any sense; none of it is fair. ♥ Quite simply, yes. I'm noticing it more and more - whether because I'm older, paying more attention or just, circumstances and people around me have changed - but yes. Everything you said there.
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Date: 2010-05-28 12:55 pm (UTC)Okay, I admit I was maybe a tad confused on - not what you were saying, but how to contextualise it in my mind. I think it's a combination of not having seen the show and just waking up. But then you said that, and there was this horrible clunk in my head were everything just sort of fell into place.
"I just don't think poets care that much about political issues." No. No no, no no no. Do they even read poetry outside their own little bubble? I'm not a big, big poetry fan (though that is slowly changing, mostly thanks to you) but even I know how much fail is in that sentence. It practically screams privileged.
Ours is not a world where voices are allowed equal weight, and quite frankly I'm beyond tired of having to walk around in a world where white straight dudes get to speak for me but I somehow get to speak for Kitty, because my white trumps her black even when we're both more or less queer women. None of it makes any sense; none of it is fair. ♥ Quite simply, yes. I'm noticing it more and more - whether because I'm older, paying more attention or just, circumstances and people around me have changed - but yes. Everything you said there.
If you do find a reading of it, let me know?