This week, Ravenhair (@lunaravenhair) and I (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/) discuss our respective poems, "Social Justice Song" and "Diamond Core," and the gender continuum.
Take a listen to also find out about poetry events taking place in the valley during the week of December 8th.
Photo of Ravenhair (https://www.instagram.com/ravenhairmusic/) by Ravenhair (https://www.facebook.com/ravenhairmusic/)
You can also follow Ravenhair on Bandcamp: https://ravenhair.bandcamp.com/
Additional links:
1. Women at Nasa: https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/women-nasa and https://history.nasa.gov/women_at_nasa.html
2. All women spacewalk: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daelqxwph08
3. Spacesuit design: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/nasa-spacesuit-women-spacewalk/585805/
4. First men on the moon: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/first-person-on-moon.html
5. The Metropolitan Opera’s protection of Placido Domingo: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/09/25/peter-gelb-step-down-why-met-opera-general-manager-unfit-lead/ihIaoXEqz3AsuOU91ldFSI/story.html and https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/762298674/met-opera-faces-one-more-catastrophic-crisis-as-employees-must-work-with-domingo
6. Statistics on violence targeted toward transgender people: https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence
7. The rates at which parts of our body renews itself (or don’t): https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-body-replace-itself-seven-years/
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