blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).

"One of the aims of poetry is to change emotion." -- Audre Lorde As I was  walking out of my school today for a little air, I saw a parent ahead of me. He was checking out his bike, as though something was wrong, and I paused a minute. Should I say hello? Or remain quiet...gifting us both with silence. I chose to say hello. And I am happy I did. "They are showing an Audre Lorde documentary tonight at Copenhagen University." He tells me. "Really?" I ask, not believing my luck, "I'll be there." So at around 4:30 I bike, literally, around the corner to the Copenhagen University. I find the auditorium and take a good seat. I get my yarn out and start knitting. Just as I recognize this parent entering, I see Dubie. I used to hang out with Dubie's ex-partner back in the day. Sara is a half-Persian, half Canadian woman who I met back in 2000 (?) when we were both being "activated", that is, going to Danish Language school. ...

I'm so excited right now. There have been a few books that definitely galvanized paradigm shifts in my life. One of them, appropriately, would be Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , the others would be Mary Daly's Pure Lust , Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and lastly John Berger's Ways of Seeing. This is by no means a complete list of books that rocked my world, but it is pretty representative of those thoughts that have contributed to my present state-of-mind and consciousness (One reason I'm really happy I went to Eugene Lang College!) When I read Berger's Ways of Seeing , I exhaled in a Terri McMillan kind of way. Anyway, I won't ruin it for you: Read the book yourself. Or, check out this video gem I discovered on The Elegant Variation , one of my favorite blogs to check out, cause it's the ultimate book geek blog. And since I can't keep up with literary books as much as I would love to, I leave it to this blog cause they d...