Not quite the Same, not quite the Other, she stands in that undetermined threshold place where she constantly drifts in and out. Undercutting the 'inside/outside' opposition, her intervention is necessarily that of both a deceptive insider and a deceptive outsider. She is this Inappropriate Other/Same who moves about with always at least two/four ( Read more... )

every day i beat a path to run to you ( Read more... )

i've been called sway
sue
suey
suzy
tissue
ha-chiew.

my father pronounced it choy
so i grew up saying choy,
always careful to add: t-s-u-i.

the first name is kit fan,
fragrant purity.
but can also mean
marriage.
in chinese, choy
can also mean hurry, fast, faidee ( Read more... )

"...our future survival is predicated upon our ability to relate within equality. As women, we must root out internalized patterns of oppression within ourselves if we are to move beyond the most superficial aspects of social change. Now we must recognize differences among women who are our equals, neither inferior nor superior, and devise ways ( Read more... )

"Your powerful, sky-soaring, heart-piercing, soul-stirring words will forever resonate with commitment, integrity, and responsibility. Thank you for your poetry and essays, woven as they were of courage and precision, love and bravery. You gave us living, fire-breathing words capable of healing, tearing down, building up, braving the long nights ( Read more... )

"Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women: women of color, working class women, poor women, Jewish women, disabled women, lesbians, old women - as well as white, economically privileged, heterosexual women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement ( Read more... )