When I did, she informed me that her love for me was unshakable. When I had my first abortion, while a student in college and nineteen* years old, my biggest worry was that my mother, if she ever learned of it, would consider me evil and would disown me suicide, prior to the abortion, had seemed my only option. When I Had My First Abortion: Or, I Was Spared To Be Here For You June 2022 To Hell With Dying, illustration of a children’s book, by Catherine Deeter ¿Qué Tiene Contra La Felicidad El Tribunal Supermo? Wedding Ceremony: Marrying Good Men (from The Cushion in the Road) Spring 2013 *Narrated gloriously by actress Elizabeth Ashley.Įncounter the cynical hypocrisy from which much of the world is laboring to escape: see the stunning Mexican film: The Dance of the Forty One, directed by David Pablos, written by Monica Reveille, and produced by Pablo Cruz and El Studio. The Supreme Court may have clueless justices and cruel laws, but we the people have artists. This book breaks new ground, as Williams’ plays did, throughout his long, creative life. One such guide to the new American world of hard won understanding of happiness in the context of racism, sexism, and homophobia is the extraordinary novel The Other Mother by pathfinder and brilliant novelist Rachel M. In this brave new territory we have entered, where people decide to publicly own their own lives, by marrying who they wish – which the Supreme Court may decide to stifle or retard – we can count on our literary artists. Our playwrights and novelists and poets help us stay, at least psychically, ahead of those who fail to wish us well. In fact, love will always run ahead of bad laws. And, even more important, believe and follow our own hearts. The Supreme Court clearly has little inkling about this matter and by now we should stop expecting it to. But it has learned little about what it might mean to enjoy happiness itself. Even so, I sat wondering as I read Clarence Thomas’ threat that Gay Marriage might be next on the Supreme Court’s chopping block, whether Tennessee Williams, to my mind irreplaceable in American literary culture, would be denied the right to marry a man he loved, if he were alive and being brazenly brilliant, and blazingly gay, among us today.Īs I have written elsewhere about our blighted country: Americans seem to have learned just enough about America’s aspirations to know it is our right to “pursue” happiness. Getting married to another man probably would not have helped him he was a true genius and pioneer, whose self-acceptance as queer meant he was brave enough to follow his own desires. Ridiculed by his father who nicknamed him “Miss Nancy,” and stifled by a deeply disturbed mother and tortured siblings, one of whom, his favorite, Rose, was lobotomized, Tom Williams, whom we know as Tennessee, lived a childhood so bleak it is astonishing that he survived as a creative being at all.įrom time to time Williams found companionship tolerant, even supportive, of his genius, but often he did not. I refrain from saying he was the greatest American playwright only because to me he is beyond category. I ask this having experienced John Lahr’s book about Tennessee Williams, MAD PILGRIMAGE OF THE FLESH,* a story of a gay man, a flaming gay man, a path seeker and truth sharer, who was as well one of the most tortured and brilliant playwrights of the last century. What Does the Supreme Court Have Against Happiness? Photo by James Olmes, curator of exhibit. #dutchfarmers #nofarmersnofood Lee el poema completo, Como Me Estroy Muriendo (Los Agricultores Lideran: No Hay Agricultores, No Hay Alimentos)ĭiego Rivera at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. CONTRA RETURNS ALICE FULLRead the full poem, As I am Dying (For all the farmers of the world who are standing up.) (For all the farmers of the world who are standing up.) Onions drying on a fence photo by Alice Walker View More – Alice Walker Books, Poetry, and Work.Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning.In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden: Womanist Prose.Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful.The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult.Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth.The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker.We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For,.Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel.Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd.
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