October 2011
September 2011
The Return of the French Mafia
Ben Charest
Ben Charest — The Return of the French Mafia.
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I’ve always understood the word “slut” to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own sexuality in any way she wants to; undisturbed by other people’s wishes for her behavior. Sexual desire originates in her and is directed by her. In that sense it is a word well worth retaining. As a poet, I find it has a rich, raunchy, elemental, down to earth sound, that connects us to something primal, moist, and free.
The spontaneous movement that has grown around reclaiming this word speaks to women’s resistance to having names turned into weapons used against them. I would guess the police officer who used the word “slut” had no inkling of its real meaning or its importance to women as an area of their freedom about to be, through the threat of rape, closed to them.
” —Alice Walker on Slut Walk (source)
Hispanic kids the largest group of children living in poverty →
washingtonpost.com
And poverty blus the ability to be locked up if you report abuse …. Let alone get help if you need it
Holst: The Planets: Uranus
Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic
The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-16)
Gustav Holst
VI. Uranus, the Magician
Herbert von Karajan; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded at the Philharmonie, Berlin on January, 1981
