An Indigenous Feminism Has Been Present In

My White Skin Disgusts Me. My Passport Disgusts Me. They Are The Marks Of An Insufferable Privilege Bought At The Price Of Others' Agony. If I Could Peel Myself Inside Out I Would Be Glad. If I Could Become Part Of The Oppressed I Would Be Free.

I Haven't The Faintest Notion What Possible Revolutionary Role White Hetero- Sexual Men Could Fulfill, Since They Are The Very Embodiment Of Reactionary- Vested-interest-power. But Then, I Have Great Difficulty Examining What Men In General Could Possibly Do About All This. In Addition To Doing The Shitwork That Women Have Been Doing For Generations, Possibly Not Exist? No, I Really Don't Mean That. Yes, I Really Do.

For A Poet, Making Poems Is A Way Of Viewing The World, Being In The World, Breathing.

In The Long Run, Women's Liberation Will Of Course Free Men-but In The Short Run It's Going To Cost Men A Lot Of Privilege, Which No One Gives Up Willingly Or Easily.

Although Every Organized Religion Works Overtime To Contribute Its Own Brand Of Misogyny To The Myth Of Woman-hate, Woman-fear, And Woman-evil, The Roman Catholic Church Also Carries The Immense Power Of Very Directly Affecting Women's Lives Everywhere By Its Stand Against Birth Control And Abortion, And By Its Use Of Skillful And Wealthy Lobbies To Prevent Legislative Change. It Is An Obscenity-an All-male Hierarchy, Celibate Or Not, That Presumes To Rule On The Lives And Bodies Of Millions Of Women.