I was strong and tough enough and charming. <br> How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna … - Elana Dykewomon

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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

Elana Dykewomon

I was strong and tough enough and charming.
How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by?
Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like
they mean us to.
Who means you to be left out?
Who don't?

Home, Left, Like, Mean, Poet, Strong

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When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

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I got a flash of. . . what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin. ' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.

Daughter, Fact, Keeps, Mother, Thin, Women

the fear of fat works. . . because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

Bodies, Class, Manipulated, Names, Racism, Room

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