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Dec. 18th, 2018 02:24 pmWhen you see yourself having to work to hard to self-soothe and you see that your self-esteem is for some reason no good but you know that's all rubbish, but your somatic body is still so upset: it is so hard to live.
I guess that means we should all give ourselves a lot more credit.
(I heard the anti-semitism when I went to that talk of Alice Walker's this summer. Not hugely loud, or anything, but I heard it. I think people aren't consistently grabbing at the right root, there -- that it has less to do with the current turn toward fascism and more to do with the long historical enmeshment of the Civil Rights, Black nationalist, Black Islamic, and Free Palestine movements. During my undergrad postbac year, there was an eruption of this tension on campus. The Jewish feminist professor in the lit department with whom I'd been studying Virginia Woolf, and my best mentor in the women's studies department, a Black woman, had an extensive schism over Israel/Palestine, and everyone took sides, and it was awful. I didn't know what to do about it, then, just walked lightly and tried to respect all these women, and don't know that I'm any better equipped now. I understand more about the stakes of resisting anti-semitism, given the aforementioned rising fascism thing.
Either way, Walker's "poem" is fucking awful.)
I guess that means we should all give ourselves a lot more credit.
(I heard the anti-semitism when I went to that talk of Alice Walker's this summer. Not hugely loud, or anything, but I heard it. I think people aren't consistently grabbing at the right root, there -- that it has less to do with the current turn toward fascism and more to do with the long historical enmeshment of the Civil Rights, Black nationalist, Black Islamic, and Free Palestine movements. During my undergrad postbac year, there was an eruption of this tension on campus. The Jewish feminist professor in the lit department with whom I'd been studying Virginia Woolf, and my best mentor in the women's studies department, a Black woman, had an extensive schism over Israel/Palestine, and everyone took sides, and it was awful. I didn't know what to do about it, then, just walked lightly and tried to respect all these women, and don't know that I'm any better equipped now. I understand more about the stakes of resisting anti-semitism, given the aforementioned rising fascism thing.
Either way, Walker's "poem" is fucking awful.)
