Some kinds of tones hurt my skin.
I don't hear them in my ears
I feel them in my pores, my aura
absorbs them like jagged knives and they slice
my arms, flay my insides
Have you ever seen the cat
sprint away and hide?
That's what my spirit does
in those moments.
Even if I look defiant
Even if I sound resistant
Even if I act triumphant
a part of me has died
each time
the tone hits me
broadside
--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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