When fragments of color, tinfoil stars and shreds of confetti converge
on the spin of the wheel and erupt into pictures of flowers and fullness,
I don't turn away--kaleidoscope wisdom has brought me the season of now.
Elementally speaking, the spirits are here
from all the directions
momentum of fire, insight of air, emotion of water, anchor of earth
I stand in the center of the wheel of the world
and call the directions
and the north calls back to me
and the east calls back to me
and the south calls back to me
and the west calls back to me
and the spirit infuses me
grounding me, lifting me, warming me, cleansing me
in this season of now
where spiraling galaxies
spin cosmic kaleidoscopes
and fragment me whole
I burst into the flower I am
--Diana Tigerlily
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Embodying Vulnerable Resistance as a Strategy of Hope
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- Diana Tigerlily
- I'm a feminist poet and performance artist. I'm a midwife of words and dreams. My intentions are to raise awareness and offer hope for a better world. I embrace a transnational, ecofeminist performance poetics that includes my full-length one-person show, Depleting Patriarchy, addressing the global impacts of depleted uranium on human bodies and earth bodies. My dissertation is a feminist autoethnography of possibility that puts on display stories of homeplace to reveal vulnerable resistance as a transformative strategy towards global justice. My poetry has been published in We’Moon: Gaia Rhythms for Womyn; Art of Survival: Women, Healing, and the Arts; and Radio-Free Boskydell: a Literary Magazine for Southern Illinois. I hold a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Communication Studies; a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies; and a Master of Arts degree in English.
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