Next up at #19thRepresents is the amazing poet, scholar, and president of the Mellon Foundation @ProfessorEA who will be reading excerpts from women activist poets. Look to poets for vision of America reimagined. They will lead us forward into the America we seek.
Alexander reads Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos "I Was My Own Route" translated into English. Google it. "...forward, forward..." #19thRepresents
Now Prof Alexander reads Audre Lorde, "Who Said It Was Simple". Googled it for you: poetryfoundation.org/poems/42587/wh… #19thRepresents
Alexander reminds us that Lorde used the word "indivisibility" before Crenshaw's "intersectionality". Alexander reads from her own work, "The Family Vote." #19thRepresents
Alexander reads Grace Paley's "Responsibility". julierenszer.blogspot.com/2007/09/respon… #19thRepresents
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