Read:
Lesbian, Black, 3rd world, not represented in feminism
No interdependency between women
Difference -> creativity -> liberation
Don't pretend difference don't exist
"racist feminism": cash, privilege to be feminist
Thoughts:
intersectionality?
unite or embrace difference? is it a trade off?
Poem becomes AL's language Plan to be a nurse and go back Mexico -> black people are not given nursing fellowship La Llorona: (Rey Domini nick name) book wrote after that
Offer: as poet in residence to Tougaloo
John Jay College: police college, black/white police registered
being identified as women / lesbian is dangerous
implement Black Studies Department
lesbian, feminist -> not cooperative -> blacks are different
fear to tell people that her husband is white (but she has to tell the students)
Explore unusual struggle and fear Responsibilities to students
AL: no secret of her sexual preference
"poem do not celebrate the people (sex) but love"
there is no universal love in literature
Need a sense of "home"
canto: "I am afraid"
pronounce only validate heterosexual relationship
Sondra Perry: a video raising concern using basketball player's name in EA game.
Sexual Harassment? Embrace playfulness of gay?
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