terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012

Nós somos radicais?


Radicalismo, seu nome é feminismo
As Feminazis quem são?
Frases e pensamentos de algumas “mulheres” feministas.
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“Heterossexualidade é um costume obstinado na qual as instituições supremacistas masculinas asseguram sua própria perpetuação e controle sobre nós. As mulheres são conservadas, mantidas e contidas através do terror, violência e o spray de sêmen... [lesbianismo é] um meio ideológico, político e filosófico de liberação de todas as mulheres da tirania heterossexual...”

Cheryl Clarke, "Lesbianismo, um ato de resistência," in This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherrie Moraga (Women of Color Press,1983), pp.128-137


Cheryl Clarke was born in 1947 in Washington, DC. She received a B.A. from Howard University and an M.A., M.S.W., and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her books of poetry include Experimental Love (Firebrand Books, 1993), which was nominated for a 1994 Lambda Literary Award; Humid Pitch (1989); Living as a Lesbian (1986); and Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Black Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Belles Lettres, The World in Us: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Poetry, and Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992). She has read her poetry and spoken at venues throughout the United States and served as member of the editorial collective for Conditions magazine. Clarke is the Director of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns at Rutgers University. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.