Posted on Jul 13, 2018
‘La Resistencia’ Readings Showcase Queer Poets Of Color
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Two years after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, gun control remains in the headlines. But the conversation surrounding race, sexuality, and privilege has faded, something that a Kansas City-area collective of queer poets of color is working to change.
‘La Resistencia’ Readings Showcase Queer Poets Of Color
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Chip I have to be honest with you, I have nothing against a "queer poet of color" but is just not a group I ever had at the top of my list to change anything. Best of luck to the Kansas City queer poets of color group in whatever endeavor they have.
Oh jeez, I am old an mean haha
Oh jeez, I am old an mean haha
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Col Joseph Lenertz
I intend to start up an activist group, left-handed myopic obese red-heads. I need it to be a narrower scope and even more meaningless than queer poets of color.
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Out of respect I did read the whole article.
Similar to what LTC Shearer was alluding to, but the issue is more focused on why in today's "post-racist" society are we using race/skin color as a codifying means to discuss on going issues that no one has an answer to? Kinda hard to defend Islam and "the resistance" against some vague enemy when it was an Islamic extremist to gunned down 49 Americans; regardless of background. Like it seems nice for those young Americans who're into that form of identity, but I'm still stuck on the idea that I am judged by the content of my character and not on the content of the color of my skin which is guess is now a racist epitaph in this new age. Especially in a time when tribalism politics and pro-segregation is on the ramp up, why push for self identify as race, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and religion to express why my life is harder and more precious over other lives just based on a single immutable trait at birth? This is nice, but it's stuff like this is why I am not friends in public or private with numerous outspoken trans Service Members and Vets. I don't see how blaming a certain race, sex, religion, gender identity would solve real world issues and the made up issues of "privilege".
"Morales is hopeful that La Resistencia will help more privileged individuals become aware of the hardships faced by people of different identities." By this logic, I'm privileged for being a mixed "white passing" Arab-American (see: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-flores/what-really-happens-when-_1_b_6147764.html) and possibly a couple other things that can't be changed or invented. Even then, what does being a "QTPOC" and mourning the dead because "the voices represented were predominantly white" have to do with an Afghan-American, Islamic terrorist who subscribed to the Mujahedeen and ISIS/ISIL ideology who somehow legally purchased guns and then gunned down 49 Americans and injuring 50 more?
Similar to what LTC Shearer was alluding to, but the issue is more focused on why in today's "post-racist" society are we using race/skin color as a codifying means to discuss on going issues that no one has an answer to? Kinda hard to defend Islam and "the resistance" against some vague enemy when it was an Islamic extremist to gunned down 49 Americans; regardless of background. Like it seems nice for those young Americans who're into that form of identity, but I'm still stuck on the idea that I am judged by the content of my character and not on the content of the color of my skin which is guess is now a racist epitaph in this new age. Especially in a time when tribalism politics and pro-segregation is on the ramp up, why push for self identify as race, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and religion to express why my life is harder and more precious over other lives just based on a single immutable trait at birth? This is nice, but it's stuff like this is why I am not friends in public or private with numerous outspoken trans Service Members and Vets. I don't see how blaming a certain race, sex, religion, gender identity would solve real world issues and the made up issues of "privilege".
"Morales is hopeful that La Resistencia will help more privileged individuals become aware of the hardships faced by people of different identities." By this logic, I'm privileged for being a mixed "white passing" Arab-American (see: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-flores/what-really-happens-when-_1_b_6147764.html) and possibly a couple other things that can't be changed or invented. Even then, what does being a "QTPOC" and mourning the dead because "the voices represented were predominantly white" have to do with an Afghan-American, Islamic terrorist who subscribed to the Mujahedeen and ISIS/ISIL ideology who somehow legally purchased guns and then gunned down 49 Americans and injuring 50 more?
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