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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Day #22: Poem 3 and Happy Birthday Diane.

April Elliott-Cartner's photo.
 
Day #22 
 

 
Turntable Rotations
 
Complicated feelings undefined
twist  defiantly through my day.
 
Mercury in retrograde
the answer to why it is all so complex.
 
And the turntable rotates
Down By The River and Neil Young
 
accompanies my racing mind
my bending body and the confusion.
 
Wrap yourself up
with my down-filled thoughts.
 
Sing to the joy and the joyless.
Break the code of my scattered mind.

 



Is Adoption Trauma?'s photo.

I want to read this book.  I want to read Desmund Tutu's book on forgiveness, also.
In Beggars and Choosers, Solinger shows how historical distinctions between women of color and white women, between poor and middle-class women, were used in new ways during the era of "choice." Politicians and policy makers began to exclude certain women from the class of "deserving mothers" by using the language of choice to create new public policies concerning everything from Medicaid funding for abortions to family tax credits, infertility treatments, international adoption, teen pregnancy, and welfare. Solinger argues that the class-and-race-inflected guarantee of "choice" is a shaky foundation on which to build our notions of reproductive freedom. Her impassioned argument is for reproductive rights as human rights--as a basis for full citizenship status for women.

 
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