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When making this entry on representation and voice last night, I asked if someone could find me a link to Hassa Helal reading her whole poem on the fatwa, the one that earned her death threats. [livejournal.com profile] delphinapterus found it for me. It has English subtitles, too. Worth watching. The translation is fairly awkward, but oh, do you ever get the gist of what she is saying.

Linked because I couldn't make embedding work.

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Date: 2010-05-28 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antihysteric.livejournal.com
Thanks for this, and for your earlier post. Lately I get more and more frustrated -- with myself and with other people -- when excuses are made about exclusion and silencing, regardless of whether it's on a large, public scale or in something as theoretically trivial as fanfic.

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Date: 2010-05-29 05:21 pm (UTC)
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (revolution girl-style)
From: [identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com
In a word, yes. It's just so glaring, so hit-you-over-the-head-all-the-time, I hate it so fucking much. And I get caught in the trap too, of privileging certain voices. Infuriating.

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Date: 2010-05-29 04:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] redbrickrose.livejournal.com
Wow, thank you so much for that link.

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Date: 2010-05-29 05:22 pm (UTC)
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (make 'em stand up and hear you)
From: [identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com
The least I could do. ♥

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