Swimming in One's Self as a Political Act

March 30, 2013
Audre Lorde

"...and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive"

(from "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde)

March 31, 2013
Josephine Baker

"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on." Josephine Baker