Showing posts with label Shailja Patel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shailja Patel. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2015

Powerful writing by Kenyan Poet Shailja Patel




"Rape cartoons are funny if it's inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped. If you live in a bubble of gender privilege that insulates you from all consequences of rape culture
AIDS jokes are funny if you've never loved someone who died of AIDS. If you live in a bubble that allows you not to know that millions of Africans died, thousands of gay men died, of criminal state indifference and denialism. Because they were, after all, only blacks and queers. Comedy material, not lives worth grieving.

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