Responses to Serena Williams' Pregnancy Are Steeped in the Racism and Sexism She's Long Faced - Rewire fb.me/IJQBoD5N
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Have you read Hoagland's poem The Change?
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no, shall look it up!
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I'll send it if you can't find it.
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this is the one? poemhunter.com/poem/the-chang
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I have wanted to post it on my blog for the last 2 yrs but it's too loaded. It's racist but lays out its racism out there for all to see.
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was talking about similar with earlier today re racist (yet beloved) children's books. What to do, what to do...
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would love to know how Claudia Rankine, Serena's poet, would read/think about that poem.
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She's the one who talked to me about it. She wrote on it in Citizen. She confronted Hoagland and his reply was "this poem isn't for you"
She's a good friend, and because she hates the poem, I can't post it, even though I do think in some ways, it's good.
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Very interesting. And perhaps that restraint/respect becomes itself an active part of your friendship, not only an avoidance of conflict?
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It's so distressingly nostalgic! And viscerally disturbing, also
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