Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 20:11:12 -0500
Subject: Re: 


and then

she heard the goddesses being invoked
in the name

of the oppressors

                 as they tried to tell her of the virtues of womanhood

coding
                 shaping

disciplining

                 so the goddess would serve them

at the expense of her own self-respect

                 she lay watching the shadows of the clouds drift by on the 
ground covered with blankets of snow

contemplating the dilemma of invoking gods and goddesses

as the elixir turned sour....




At 08:41 AM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:


>you do not get to sexualize me
>
>thought anasuya
>
>as she saw the wise trimurtis
>
>turn into horny teenagers
>
>leering
>
>for
>getting
>their knowledge and wisdom
>
>dis-connecting their bodies from their minds
>
>in selfish short-sighted momentary
>immaturity
>
>turning them into adults for her
>
>was a mind trick
>
>turning them into her children as she transformed her image into that of
>innocence
>
>was a body trick
>
>she saved face for them
>as
>she saved her dignity
>
>continuing to dialogue with them
>
>on matters of great importance
>
>                         you do not get to sexualize me
>
>you do not get to contain my labor in domestic spaces
>
>anasuya expressed the profound in the very
>ladling
>of the food
>
>                 every morsel they would eat would tell them truths they 
> did not perceive
>through their egotistic Manly performances
>
>serving them with humility
>as
>they showed their
>insecurity
>in her presence by trying to
>contain her
>
>brilliance in domestic spaces
>and
>sexualizing her
>
>she transformed her mind and body in clever ways
>turning them into babies
>
>her immature children
>
>with
>                 the power of durga
>                 the power of kali
>                         the power of the mother
>
>and she faded into the skies in a moment of glory.
>
>....
>
>Radhika Gajjala
>
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>
>

Radhika Gajjala

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