tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7490819.post4882556081524858580..comments2023-09-12T08:23:36.930-07:00Comments on Womanish Words: A Day of AbsenseLynn Sweetinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11961544928890612432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7490819.post-68980057036782101222009-02-06T14:00:00.000-08:002009-02-06T14:00:00.000-08:00Hey Nicolette, Good Sister. I mean to write more o...Hey Nicolette, Good Sister. I mean to write more on this, I think we could grow it into something big and powerful. I'm grateful for your relentless voice on this issue.<BR/>in hope.Lynn Sweetinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11961544928890612432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7490819.post-84144725552894823282009-02-06T13:49:00.000-08:002009-02-06T13:49:00.000-08:00Oh Calypso, so many of us, all kinds, know about t...Oh Calypso, so many of us, all kinds, know about the rejection and exile of which you speak. As for artists (of all genders) , (at home and away), we need to begin by organizing and using our voting power to affect change at the parliamently level by by refusing to vote for any candidate who does not make serious funding for cultural affairs a part of their platform. On the Day of Absense we'll mourn the "death" of the Bahamian Artist by way of governmental financial abuse. Then we must begin (again) to conjure the resurrection!<BR/>in hope.Lynn Sweetinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11961544928890612432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7490819.post-35115518761929179482009-02-04T15:37:00.000-08:002009-02-04T15:37:00.000-08:00I thought I'd responded but my comment didn't make...I thought I'd responded but my comment didn't make it. Thanks, Lynn, for this! Thanks for your support!Nicolette Bethelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709440253218285708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7490819.post-66853323719516339672009-02-03T22:54:00.000-08:002009-02-03T22:54:00.000-08:00Ah, Sistuh... I am already in absentia... how much...Ah, Sistuh... I am already in absentia... how much more absent can we be? I support this, I do. It just makes me sad because it underscores for me why I could not survive at home. Add to these discussions please the added dimension that very possibly the majority of artists who have left the Bahamas are also queer: gay, lesbian, bi and transgender women and men who no longer wished to sacrifice our well being (sanity, ability to love, to worship, to be at home in the most fundamental ways...)in order to be accepted. Who is doing the ceremony? There should be mourning. There should be great sadness. After all, it is our own best dreams we are throwing away, giving up; unable to value the treasure in ourselves. How many more can the Bahamas lose before it understands it is not better, we are not better for the loss, the absence... Sending you blessings, all ways, always... CalypsoHelen Klonarishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10151447299029848463noreply@blogger.com