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Loving in the War Years - Cherríe Moraga
Loving you is like living
in the war years.
I do think of Bogart & Bergman
not clear who’s who
but still singin a long smoky
mood into the piano bar
drinks straight up
the last bottle in the house
while bombs split
outside, a broken
world.
A world war going on
but you and I still insisting
in each our own heads
still thinkin how
if only I could make some contact
with that woman across the keyboard
we size each other up
yes …
Loving you has this kind of desperation
to it, like do or die, I
having eyed you from the first
time you made the decision to move
from your stool
to live dangerously.
All on the hunch
that in our exchange of photos
of old girlfriends, names
of cities and memories
back in the states
the fronts we’ve manned
out here on the continent
all this on the hunch
that this time there’ll be
no need for resistance
Loving in the war years
calls for this kind of risking
without a home to call our own
I’ve got to take you as you come
to me, each time like a stranger
all over again. Not knowing
what deaths you saw today
I’ve got to take you
as you come, battle bruised
refusing our enemy, fear.
We’re all we’ve got. You and I
maintaining
this war time morality
where being queer
and female
is as bad
as we can get.
“This lesson is part of a larger vogue studies curriculum, a unit aimed at teaching ballroom scene history to the ballroom scene, other queer people of color, and our allies. The unit works on both discussing history and teaching vogue dance, combining the two to show a comprehensive history of the scene, and promote voguing as a tool of political action and resistance. In the stage in which it currently exists, the curriculum begins with outlining a basic timeline of ballroom scene history, then breaking down each point on that timeline for deeper inquiry. This lesson comes at the earlier part of the unit, just after the basic outline has been presented, and uses vogue’s initial foundation in Riker’s Island Prison as a starting point to understand and challenge the prison industrial complex…”
Chillin in the sun with my boos @theblackqueermaenad @chetan-lutah
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last first friday (queer dance at school) was … weird. But the preparty was fun lol
Spring is coming :) @kylieaw @strugglebusexpress #qpoc #sun ☀☀☀👌
David and I are looking into starting a queer Latin@ group on campus. It’s mad exciting. The basic premise of the group is to have a space to not only talking about issues affecting us as queer Latino@s, but also a place where we can share methods and tools on combating oppressions within our communities (homophobia and sexism in Chican@ communities, or racism and sexism in queer communities, as just two examples).
Here’s a potential logo I made. :) what do you all think?
"I suspect heterosexual Chicanos will have the world to learn from their gay brothers about their shared masculinity, but they will have the most to learn from the “queens,” the “maricones.” Because they are deemed “inferior” for not fulfilling the traditional role of men, they are more marginalized from mainstream heterosexual society than other gay men and are especially vulnerable to male violence. Over the years, I have been shocked to discover how many femme gay men have grown up regularly experiencing rape and sexual abuse. The rapist is always heterosexual and usually Chicano like themselves. What has the Gay Movement done for these brothers? What has the Chicano Movement done? What do these young and once-young men have to tell us about misogyny and male violence? Like women, they see the macho’s desire to dominate the feminine, but even more intimately because they both desire men and share manhood with their oppressor. They may be jotos, but they are still men, and are bound by their racial and sexual identification to men."
- Cherríe Moraga, “Queer Aztlan: the Re-formation of Chicano Tribe”
"Chicanos are an occupied nation within a nation, and women
and women’s sexuality are occupied within Chicano nation. If
women’s bodies and those of men and women who transgress their
gender roles have been historically regarded as territories to be
conquered, they are also territories to be liberated. Feminism has
taught us this. The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the
brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
It is a new nationalism in which la Chicana Indigena stands at the
center, and heterosexism and homophobia are no longer the cultural
order of the day."
- Cherríe Moraga, “Queer Aztlan: the Re-formation of Chicano Tribe”
David and I made history on Wednesday by instituting a Gender and Sexuality Chair for our Chican@ Caucus at school. With a unanimous vote, we amended the group’s constitution to include this position!
When I brought it up last semester, we only had 4 people support it, but this time we weren’t messing around! We combated all their arguments against the position (i.e. too many board positions, too specific a task, why do we need it, etc.) and convinced everyone in the room to vote for this!
Last semester I was so upset because this got shut down right before I was voted off my position as Political Chair for basically having too many queer events. I was so angry I wrote this on how upset I was at my Chican@ community. But now we made it clear that we will no longer be silenced in our communities!
Que viva la joteri@!
Proud Colors #qpoc #brownisbeautiful
