Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:38:48 -0500
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but that role was performed by a female
actress
dressed as the male inheritor of the master's

art

for the boys were being brought up and shaped into masculinities that did not
permit
the performance of your traditions, arts, philosophies...

the men in Modernity cannot be followers of Saraswathi as you were....

to carry your traditions forward

it must be a woman dressed in man's garb

that performs the role

or a man dressed in woman's garb

for it is true that your ancestor's modes of being

their knowledges cannot exist in Male forms

e-feminized as they are through processes of colonization

you must have known what it is to be a woman

                 i hear your wisdom in a woman's voice
                         i hear your words in your mother's form

i see my grandmother in your ghostly form

as I speak to ghosts the two merge




Radhika Gajjala

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