"Communal Organs & The Internal World of Girls," a substack novel and a multi-media call-and-response
It's up to us to imagine what that looks like
This post has a sound:
Last Friday,
shared a Rebecca Woolf quote:I long to read an anthology of books that include what has been historically omitted from the work of women out of fear it would turn people off or divulge too much information. I want to know where every woman writer drew the line between what they believed would be digestible to audiences and what would be… too much.
To use a bookbinding analogy, that entire anthology is already out there; the signatures just haven’t been sewn yet.
Part one of my response:1
If you're white, You're all right.
If you're yellow, You're mellow.
If you're brown, Stick around.
If you're black, Get back.
Redbone, redbone
Why did you let the devil in?
I see you let the racists win
When you are old and alone
And in an old folks home
Where they do not know your kin
Nor color of your mother’s skin
They will think you white
They will see your gleaming rings
And roll out the banners of that colorless supremacy
With knowing of that shameless white shine
Get back.I return the call to you. How will you respond?
I imagine a visual stamp for this project, one that others wouldn’t be required to use but is available. A rainbow-colored rattlesnake going round in the heart-like shape of a cardioid, turning dramatically to self-inflict poison. Something that, in my head, might reckon back to a sankofa (think I borrowed the below image from a post by Miss Omolara)
A saying that can be found quoted in Black in Blues