Despre

 It’s called “Psychological Paradigms of Displaced Persons,” called “Patterns of Love in Peoples of Diaspora,” called “Loss of the Homeplace”

Li-Young Lee

 “We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my house.’” That “more” she defined as careers. She did not discuss who would be called in to take care of the children and maintain the home if more women like herself were freed from their house labor and given equal access with white men to the professions. She did not speak of the needs of women without men, without children, without homes. She ignored the existence of all non-white women and poor white women. She did not tell readers whether it was more fulfilling to be a maid, a babysitter, a factory worker, a clerk, or a prostitute, than to be a leisure class housewife.’

bell hooks

“Feminist Theory from Margin to Center”

“In my world, you can cuddle with men; pick out plants or pillows with men; process hurt, fear, and trauma with men (…) If only it were as easy and pleasing as picking house plants and talking about love. It is not. Masculinity without patriarchy also must mean tremendous pain. Because it means being brutally and unromantically honest about the wreckage and oppression of my history and choices; the times I was uncaring or dangerous. I was.”

“A masculinity without patriarchy can never be just a celebration of how great it is to be woke. (…) At this point, masculinity must be about surrender and the willingness to change, about seeing myself and my manhood not as a fixed definition but as one of growth”.

Carvel Wallace

“This is not an Elegy”