>Enjoying this thread very much...makes me realize how >much I miss being in school. Another brilliant and moving >read is Zami A New Spelling of My Name a biomythography >by Audre Lorde. If you dont know who she is/was, >Audre Lorde was a celebrated lesbian author, activist and poet. >She died in 1992 after a 14 year struggle with breast cancer. >She was a founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, >a founding member of Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in >South Africa, and she addressed the First National March >for Lesbian & Gay Liberation in 1979 in Washington DC. >Lorde was internationally recognized as a significant >contributor to the struggle for Black, women's and lesbian >and gay rights. > >During that year at York University, I saw the film >A Litany for Survival, The Life and Work of Audre Lorde. >Absolutely moved me to the core. > >I need to take a moment to clarify my comment about >INternational films. I know that there is a lot of less >than good filming coming out of Europe..and that there >are good films out of Hollywood at times.I was just in >that moment of remembering the sweetness and the emotion >and how Ienjoyed the exotic-ness of watching films where >I dont speak the language...oh hell, the more I try to >explain, the further I dig into the hole. Nevermind. > >Mags
I know exactly what you are saying. (your offlist comments)Some of my favs have been foreign too. Subtitles can be good;if nothing else they slow us down a bit. ;-) I will read some of the recommendations that you and others have mentioned by feminist writers. Have you read anything by Camilla Paglia (sp)? She is a lesbian writer who castigates some of the leadership in the feminist movement. She dares to speak out, so she's sort of been... PUT OUT TO SEA. I find her humorous and refreshing. She believes in the concept of feminism, she's just put off by the radicalism and sometimes the untruthfulness in it's message. An example of her distaste would the atrocious:men-bashing. She has problems I believe too with the gay-movement, this is for another day though. Bree np:D.K. I've got you under my skin. > > > > >===== >it's a miracle! >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
