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Litterateur
November 2020

Doue'e

All this, by a long way of
saying that the above is a
vision of being an artist that I
utterly reject and hope the
douee does not have to
partake in. As a matter of

fact, I would like to identify
what some of the humus for
my writing and activism has
been over the years. As a
person who in her youth was
nurtured by radical traditions Father working in the back yard
which were strong in the
1960’s 70’s both in the US and
Italy, like many others, I
believe in the association
between arts, social justice
and freedom (see here Meena
Alexander’s and here Toni
Morrison’s more eloquent
expositions of the concept) . I
believe that whatever
creativity a person might
have must be put back into

the community and society
from where it sprang and be Brother in law making pizza boxes
allowed to make ripples in at the restaurant, early 1960's
the contiguous areas,
especially now that the
transnational implications of
our lives have been made
pretty clear.