response to rebecca because i am a luddite and this way works…
yes, i mean… what is wrong with art as comfort? sometimes i think it’s just a sexist rubric… the way women are cooks and men are chefs…. women have historically been poets and men have been Poets… look at the historical reaction to dickinson… it’s as if she were knitting or something… but yes, is it feminist (would only men be Feminists?) to get behind rumi, perchance? as a feminist, would i serve my cause better by being the theory-head i have been – showing i can play with the “big boys” – or by settling into my yoga (i am a huge yoga practitioner, bwt, because it COMFORTS ME)… taking long walks in the woods, contemplating… thinking of poetry as sweeter… another rubric (if we feel like getting dark and mean) is to think about corporate culture, which, in a funny way, is highly feminized… encourages positive thinking via continual euphemism, is passive-aggressive in many of its modalities, is trite and highly legible… like rumi….?
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