10/27: round-up
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Here’s what I have for you today:
What I read last week
Quotations from things I read
Books I bought last week
What I’m reading this week
Re: persona poems
What else?
I will send you 5 bomb-ass books for $30.
Okay, I’m done.
What I read last week:
Quotations:
A few beats later, Chappelle declares "We Blacks, we look at the gay community and we go “Goddamn it! Look how well that movement is going." Never mind that, in addition to being both Black and gay, I also happen to live in the state of Ohio, as does Chappelle himself, where our governor just signed a provision that will allow doctors and other medical professionals to deny healthcare to LGBTQ patients. As the activist Raquel Willis said on Twitter, “It’s convenient for Black cishet male comedians to talk about LGBTQ+ folks as if our group is only or even predominantly white. With that frame, they don’t have to contend with how Black cishet folks often enact (physical and psychological) violence on Black LGBTQ+ folks.”
-Dave Chappelle’s Betrayal, Saeed Jones
I became a migrant twice over. I left a country and then a gender. In neither case did I ever quite arrive.
I don’t recognize the authority of the cis to police the borders of gender.
Books I bought last week:
War, the Musical, Rob Fitterman and Dirk Rowntree
How To Proceed in the Arts, Gary Sullivan
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, Elena Ferrante
What I hope to read this week:
On persona poems:
Have a good week!
-DB
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