Links and Poetry

[sophinisba]

Earlier today ciderpress posted the first Asian Women's Carnival with links to lots and lots of great posts, including deepad's new poem The Indian Woman.

Here is a video of another poem on a similar subject (how stereotypes objectify women of color) by the Palestinian American poet Suheir Hammad. It's called "exotic" and you can read the text here.

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

AWESOME video like whoa! :)

[sophinisba]

I know, right? And she's so calm about it when what she's talking about is so powerful. I love the part where she's like, "It's just a blink, get over it."

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Such powerful poem! And many thanks for the link, too. I'm in language heaven.

[sophinisba]

You're so welcome. I'm also excited to have so much good stuff to read.

[roga.livejournal.com]

That is a great poem, thank you for posting.

[sophinisba]

Yay, I'm glad you liked it.