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2011; Feminist Studies; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/fem.2011.0009

2153-3873

Vanessa Huang,

Education Systems and Policy

Vanessa Huang Driving with the top down sun out & wind blowing all over theplace xoxo, mm Trust, child. When I was 29 & radio broadcasted "a matter of principle" we didn't forecast this cloudbreak to morning onion rain: back on before Where the boys are, someone waits to throw back angled portrait of Miss Major stunned like the lights forme\ A smilin' face— & taking off my kitten heels at the Christopher cops, New Daughters of Bilitis storming lipstick curls & toothbrushes at billy clubs sea a screams pinking overcome/ hand in hand Feminist Studies37, no. 2 (Summer 2011). © 2011 by Vanessa Huang 437 438 Vanessa Huang with the girls at Gene's, Hair Fairies spilling on to Taylor & Turk smoke clouds like/ a warm embracetwo-spirit ghost shirts knee deep in the earth/ Cover me with pretty liesI two arms to hold me tenderly from Cambodia fireworks raining always my girls & the sons I don't mind callin' me Dad Oh, deep in my heart/ & Brother Soledad I do believe/ some street in town and I know he's lookin' therefor me/ In the crowd of a million peopleI'll find I myfallen body Icarus, When Mancusis ask "Why are they destroying their homes?" & commissions write "critical" & "risk ofloss" they did not risk loss walking protractors out a Kent & dogwood blossoms from Cleveland truck routes/ where the boys true love will be He's walkin' down Vanessa Huang ■m back from the mess hall/ valentine pulled out a line/ And then I'll climb to the highest steeple in this castle a towers/ and tell the world he's mine/ Brother Herb say the world is hearing the world is seeing the world is coming & the brothers talk to the People of America exploding guards against the walls on firespreading wild, blowing holes /'Til he holds me I wait impatiently/ Where the boys are, where the boys are morningspark storm a demons I where the boys are Trust, child. When queens say "a superb job" & "tremendous" they did not see Attica is all of us & I know someone waits forme/'Til heholdsmeI wait impatiently I Where the boys are black flowers stemming without light or water black that whispers I can't tell you what the yard was like I cried it was so close everyone together castle a flowers thick & bitter/ where the boys arej We shall overcome these birds a prey fireskydeaths & stripped naked / Where the boys are\ We are not afraid We are not alone some day/ column a flowers shake shadowmemory out a hostage echoes knuckled under 'til spirit crawl & beat down on trouble & trouble plea guilty 440 Vanessa Huang I some day accordion dreams promise someone waits for me I am paper 66 & my silvergray wig j hold me tenderly top down where the boys are sun out & wind blowing all over the place/ The whole wide world aroundj shall overcome their throatslash some day The poem refers to these resistances: the 1971 rebellion of prisoners at the Attica "Cor rectional Facility" in New York state, one of whose leaders was Herbert X. Blyden, and where Vincent R. Mancusi was the warden; the three-day 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, led by two-spirit, transsexual, transgender, lesbian, bisexual, and gay persons of color, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street; Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian social and political group begun in the 1950s in San Francisco; the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966 in San Francisco's Tenderloin District; the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam covertly bombed by the U.S. at its bases in Cambodia; U.S. anti-Viet Nam war organizing in the 1970s, including in Ohio at Kent State where students were shot and killed by the National Guard, and in Cleveland, where pictures of the MyLai massacre were first published in the Plain Dealer, and the Soledad Brothers George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette—three Black prisoners at Soledad California state prison, defended by Angela Davis. "knee deep in the earth" and "Cover me with pretty lies" are borrowed from Buffy Sainte Marie's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." The rest of the italicized text is borrowed from "Where the Boys Are" and "We Shall...