The World Will Follow Joy

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Someone has said,”We don’t need another ‘ism’.” And I agree that the “isms” of the past have been tiresome; but this is partly because woman, and especially dark woman, had no real place in them.

a fuller comprehension of this poem please view these films: Incident at Oglala, In Prison My Whole Life, Trudell, and Why We Fight.

Where rivers

have run wild. I am saying, as I believe, that

we must begin again to have conversation

with our planet.

the tyranny

imposed on her by humanity. W

Mother defend

Yourself:

We who love you

Stand witness

To

Your innocence.

predicament’s greatest cause is humanity’s

fear of sharing equally with others, and its

rapidly growing, partly because of this fear,

o perhaps the new “ism” we

are talking about is not classic Womanism,

but Motherism. Democratic Motherism.

Democratic Womanism.

Democratic Socialist Womanism.

Would we kill whole continents for oil

(or anything else)

rather than limit

the number of consumer offspring we produce

and learn how to make our own fire?