Since this will be my last post at Feministing, I would like to give a quick thanks to everyone who made it such a great experience. A big thanks to all of the Feministing women for asking me to guest-blog, to all of them and Miriam for being such great co-bloggers, and a special thanks to Ann for being so helpful. Also, thanks to everyone who commented and was receptive to what I had to say. I hope that those of you who enjoyed my posts will follow me back to The Curvature, and of course, I'll be around here commenting, as always.
I'm going to leave you with a stunningly excellent pro-choice poetry slam called "What We Deserve." It's from the 2006 International World Poetry Slam Finals and by Sonya "The Drama" Boom Renee. I had to watch it twice, and was almost in tears towards the end, the second time around. For those of you who have been commenting today that all the recent bad news is getting you down, know that you're not the only one who's angry!
[Thanks to KaeLyn for the video]
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That rocked! Thank you!
that video gave me chills. i'm sending it along to my friends. thank you!
Phenomenal.
Wow, that definitely got to me.
I have no words to say, but the tears forming at the corners of my eyes say enough.
Wow. Thank you, that was amazing.
SOLID.
Holy shit, that gave me goosebumps. Those were some badass rhymes.
Incredible. I want to find out more about her work.
Goddamn YES. For serious, I cried.
I don't have anything different to say, but it needs a comment!
Amazing. That is exactly how I feel!
That was so wonderful. Wow. Goosebumps and tears and hope and motivation and reassurance!! I just can't get over how great that was! I was just feeling really down about all that is against us in this fight, and its just so great to be reminded that there are people out there fighting for us, too. Loved it.
That was so wonderful. Wow. Goosebumps and tears and hope and motivation and reassurance!! I just can't get over how great that was! I was just feeling really down about all that is against us in this fight, and its just so great to be reminded that there are people out there fighting for us, too. Loved it.
For those of you who are interested in learning more about Sonya, I have just updated the post to include a link to her MySpace page.
That was amazing, and very powerful. I teared up at the end. Thank you for posting it!!!
Thanks for doing such a great job guest blogging.
Thanks Jer! That's really nice to hear.
GOOSEBUMPS
amazing
Yes, very powerful, and I totally agree, but I cannot find this poetry, really. It seems more like a polemic, or something like that. Or is this example the 'slam' in poetry slam?