It was an "innocent" remark. Though a friend pointed out b/c that if
she were white I wouldn't have commented on her race. And fair
enough; I shall have to think about that, although it was unusual for
me to see a young black woman in that particular (white, middle aged)
context. There was however no subtext or implication about her being
somehow ignorant or declasse, which I fear is being read here - after
all, she was articulate, middle class and very well dressed: it was
more about the difference between her expectations as a potential new
audience for poetry, given that she'd never been to a reading before,
and mine, which are conditioned by my writing and reading poetry and
by having been to several hundred, and how that made our responses to
a particular reading differ so widely.
Best
Alison
>On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Alison Croggon wrote...
>
>>At 9:42 AM +1100 1/20/03, Libby Hart wrote:
>>>Alison wrote:
>>>'There was a young black woman next to me who had come to the reading out of
>>>curiosity...'
>>>
>>>Did I miss something? Was there a reason behind the 'young black woman'
>>>label???
>>
>>She was young and black. What are you reading there?
>>
>>A
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>And, presumably, a woman. ;-)
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>Peter
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