Jeremiah

As part of HERstory Month, I attended this event tonight. Just wow. Seren Divine and the SisterHoodExpression Collective were incredible. To quote the flier, They are women spoken-word artists from the New England area who aren’t afraid of dirty words like feminist. Granted, many feminists piss me off. But this was different. These were women just proud to be themselves without having to fight the man, not because they couldn’t, but because being themselves is so much more important.

An audience participation game ended the event. The game was called Wouldn’t It Be Cool and involved anyone yelling out what would be cool to a drum beat. I think the game was more group therapy than anything else. A few of my favorites: Wouldn’t it be cool if the administration of the school would listen and give straight answers instead of flashing me a pretty smile and avoiding the questions? (Asked out of frustration with the school administration’s handling of professor contract negotiations.) Wouldn’t it be cool if we could all smoke outside the Little Building? (Asked in humor and hate for the people who smoke in front of the entrance to Emerson’s main building.) Wouldn’t it be cool if we didn’t have to fight to love whomever we wanted? (Asked out of frustration with the Massachusetts Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage.) Wouldn’t it be cool when there was no need for Herstory Month?

And mine: Wouldn’t it be cool if people of my faith would love like Jesus taught instead of discriminating? (Asked out of frustration with people of my own faith who forget Galatians 5:14.)

That’d be cool.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 26th, 2004 at 22:05 and is tagged life.