Judy Grahn - Another Mother Tongue (1984)

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We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Judy Grahn

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

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The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

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Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

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The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

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