Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:29:33 -0500
Subject: 


From: "annapurna" <annapurna-AT-cyberdiva.org>
To: <sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
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Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:35:41 +0530

standing behind a veil
sometimes i speak

and hear other people's voices come out of my mouth
am i a man
or a woman

behind the veil
i am neither
i am
me
----- Original Message -----
From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
To: <sa-cyborgs-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:08 AM


 > 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
 >
 > _______________________
 > http://www.cyberdiva.org
 >
 >
 >