A diary entry, March 11, 2009:
Gwenola, poor rebel bitch. No University post in Paris and so she flew herself in. Every other minute she bewails, What am I doing here? Fuckinggodforsaken country.
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Distance. Something I am comfortable with. But I don’t think of you anymore. Or maybe it’s just that you were never there to be thought of and you wanted it that way.
So this is how it is. To stand in the desert Unstormed
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Kerima Polotan:
The world moves because there are enough of us who willingly face the doom of being common and ordinary and humdrum, struggling within the hedges to achieve not the bliss of the Gods but something humbler, a more feasible joy.
A cop-out haha.
I only want to be the odd paragraph and write before I die the single essay.
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Gwenola, poor rebel bitch. No University post in Paris and so she flew herself in. Every other minute she bewails, What am I doing here? Fuckinggodforsaken country.
....
Distance. Something I am comfortable with. But I don’t think of you anymore. Or maybe it’s just that you were never there to be thought of and you wanted it that way.
So this is how it is. To stand in the desert Unstormed
....
Kerima Polotan:
The world moves because there are enough of us who willingly face the doom of being common and ordinary and humdrum, struggling within the hedges to achieve not the bliss of the Gods but something humbler, a more feasible joy.
A cop-out haha.
I only want to be the odd paragraph and write before I die the single essay.
....
Jules has taken to the lectern. Doesn't think of herself as famous. Like Christine Delphy or some of those she calls racist feminists. Lesbianism not as sexual preference or alternative lifestyle but as a fundamental critique of the dominant order and as an organizing principle for women, she said. Wait. Did Jules say that or Adrienne Rich said that? Maybe the both of them. Jules should be an improvement from the last tribe. What's the craziest she said? She dreams of a lesbian-led revolution.
Germi doesn't think much of lesbianism. Her circumstances do not warrant it, got no uses for it. Daphne says she doesn't want to be any of that, that LBGTQI frak-frak. Who wants to be an L or an I or Q. Who wants to be a frac-frac.
But what can anyone who wants to succeed in at least anything do? Downplay the old constructs, throw away all analysis, and to insist on entering, rough and tumble, the games that men are playing? The suffragists won the vote by capitalizing on women’s supposed greater nobility of spirit. I think I will puke.
But Audre Lorde now sounds like a dead man, using words like feminism and oppression and liberation and genuine change the old tools indeed.
Advocating tolerance, says she, is the grossest form of reformism. There ought to be community. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
“Pray Miss, write no more!”
Mary Wollstonecraft said that, in 1789, not I.
Germi doesn't think much of lesbianism. Her circumstances do not warrant it, got no uses for it. Daphne says she doesn't want to be any of that, that LBGTQI frak-frak. Who wants to be an L or an I or Q. Who wants to be a frac-frac.
But what can anyone who wants to succeed in at least anything do? Downplay the old constructs, throw away all analysis, and to insist on entering, rough and tumble, the games that men are playing? The suffragists won the vote by capitalizing on women’s supposed greater nobility of spirit. I think I will puke.
But Audre Lorde now sounds like a dead man, using words like feminism and oppression and liberation and genuine change the old tools indeed.
Advocating tolerance, says she, is the grossest form of reformism. There ought to be community. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.
“Pray Miss, write no more!”
Mary Wollstonecraft said that, in 1789, not I.
