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“We should not, we must not, blame those who have been silenced or are compliant with their own oppression for not being brave enough. But nor should we end up in a place where talking about the sex and gender of authors is deemed irrelevant”
[…]
résiste, camarade
compagne de combat
la montagne nous attend
et avec tous « les insurgés »
tous les innocents
et tous ceux qui veulent
relever l’affront
ne pleure pas camarade
femme
oublie ta douleur
ta résistance
est celle
d’une palestinienne
qui lutte pour Jérusalem (53)
La represión de la sexualidad femenina desaguaba en el ansia de confidencia, de lágrimas compartidas. Por eso se idealizaba al ‘hombre atormentado’. Enamorarse era, en cierto modo, tener acceso a la naturaleza de esos presuntos tormentos varoniles, rodeados siempre de cierto misterio. (p. 149)
I’m an artist of the hearth; dresses in tatters from flying sparks;
skin scarred from falling logs.
I love fire and the pictures of fire.
But I love dead fire best:
rolling in cinders until I’m glittery with flakes of ash
“Cinderella”, The Book of Blood, pos. 846.