Journal created:
on 20 February 2004 (#2281871)
Updated:
on 28 September 2008
Name:
D
Birthdate:
9 March
Location:
United States
These are my heroes
…those who have reached into their pain, into the inner recesses of their sacred experiences, into the cut-throat negotiations of their social identities, and have brought forth representations of life marked with such startling poignancy, they remind of life’s beauty, and of its pain. My heroes are the scorned, those labeled “anti-heroes” who have dared interrogate the spaces ideological hegemony has dictated they occupy, antiheroes who have awakened and like blossoming chrysalises, have broken society’s silken cords of restriction and strangulation, shaping for themselves and for progeny a new vision of possibility, a radical reconfiguration of being. My heroes are those who have dared to reach beyond...
…those who have reached into their pain, into the inner recesses of their sacred experiences, into the cut-throat negotiations of their social identities, and have brought forth representations of life marked with such startling poignancy, they remind of life’s beauty, and of its pain. My heroes are the scorned, those labeled “anti-heroes” who have dared interrogate the spaces ideological hegemony has dictated they occupy, antiheroes who have awakened and like blossoming chrysalises, have broken society’s silken cords of restriction and strangulation, shaping for themselves and for progeny a new vision of possibility, a radical reconfiguration of being. My heroes are those who have dared to reach beyond...
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