Week 14--Creating an Unreal World (and Working on the Real One!)

(Tamarinda)

Woman

Whoa Man

Whoaaaaa Man

The feminist’s sex, you look perplexed

We’re singing a rock awesome song

(All)

Let’s talk about why you’re pissed

So you can become a feminist

So many things will make you pissed

After you become a feminist

(Weezie)

Feminism has so many uses

Through three whole waves

We have fought male abuses

(Abby)

So when you feel like the only girl

Against the patriarchy

(Tamarinda)

Here’s a list of ladies who are feminists

(All)

Just like you and me

(Abby)

Anne Dalke is one for sure

(Tamarinda)

Just give me a couple seconds so I can think of some more

(Abby)

If you’re looking for something sexy read Laugh of the Medusa

(All)

Lifting G Stein’s belly is a little too obtuse (and gross/I don’t get it)

(Weezie)

Linda Kauffman might not like this song

She’d say it was personal testimony

(All)

and she thinks that is wrong

(Weezie)

You may like the ranting of the angry Bell Hooks

(Abby)

Or perhaps you prefer the poetry of Audre Lord and Gwendlein Brook

(Tamarinda)

All feminists!

(All)

Let’s talk about why you’re pissed

So you can become a feminist

So many things will make you pissed

After you become a feminist

(Abby)

James Sosnoski

(All)

Not a chick

(Weezie)

But he can still be a feminist

(All)

Even with a dick

(Abby)

Virginia Woolf wrote three Guinees

(Tamarinda)

Now the question stands

(All)

How would you spend your three pennies?

(Weezie)

Ann Dixon keeps serendip awesome

She updates it every day

(All)

so we can argue on the forum

(Tamarinda)

When we read Octavia Butler

Abby and Weezie didn’t like her

(Weezie)

But you know who everybody loves?

(All)

Fucking Susan Stryker

(Abby)

You don’t have to be in English house to debate

(Tamarinda)

In fact, you can live and work in a completely different state

(All)

Yeah alums!

We talk about why we’re pissed

That’s why we call ourselves feminists

We’re sorry if there’s something we have missed

We’re still pretty awesome feminists

So drink your rum and sour mix

And play a game of pick up sticks

Pour yourself a sierra mist

And read a lady theorist

Open up a bag of chips

And shake your child bearing hips

Anne Dalke would be really pissed

If you weren’t a lovely lady loving feminist

Institutions shape us more than we shape them;

Confront the disturbing implications of our historical reality.

Without preconceptions,

necessarily utopian,

self-consciously and unabashedly subjective,

the object of the critique.

the same anomaly.

Society tames the feminist.

That excuse shall not serve you, Madam.

Situated in the larger struggle against patriarchy,

suffering never ennobles, it only humiliates.

Woman must write her self,

gaining strength through the unconscious.

Duality is transcended,

yet I am invisible;

but I exist, we exist.

Biography is many-sided,

coherent, unified, morally inspiring.

Illusions are fabricated,

mythologizing ourselves or the past.

Against the grain of individualism,

relentless in their insistence,

they necessarily bear the mark of our time:

a mutable, more malleable species…

ambivalence from the clash of voices.

Woman always occurs simultaneously in several places.

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining…

defined by limiting criteria, without reciprocity.

Should that state of affairs continue?

Enough ink has been spilled quarrelling.

To fight has always been the man’s habit…

I have begun my own quiet war.

On the face of it, how easy, how simple;

but in the depths, how difficult, how complicated…

Here then is your own letter.

Repression is proliferating at a prodigious pace.

Ebullient, infinite woman,

let no one hold you back.

Write and proclaim this unique empire,

help prune the rose bushes,

reach an audience that transcends the academy,

reach her heart and mind.

I know I said I would write down where I got each line, but I simply have not had time to go back and do so yet. I got all of these lines from Woolf, Kauffman, Schweickart, Cixous, Anzaldua, De Beauvoir, and Cisneros. I tried to incorporate a variety of voices from different time periods and cultures in order to send one message; hopefully I accomplished that goal!