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So this is a drawing that
I did after a performance.

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So I did some performance
art when I was in art school.

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And this one was me walking
down the street in Atlanta

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in that sort of outfit
with my friend who

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was dragging a guitar and had
an amp on her back with a remix

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of a poem that I did.

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And I was screaming basically,
going up and down the street

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screaming.

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And the idea came from "Glass,
Irony, and God" by Anne Carson.

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She has an essay
in it that mentions

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how women were prevented from
showing their grief in public

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in ancient Greece because
they were protesting

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their sons being killed in war.

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And they did it so
much and so loudly

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that it was made illegal
for women to gather and make

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noise in public.

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So that's what that
drawing came from

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and partially where some
of these poems came from.

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So I'll just read a little
bit from Fearful Beloved.

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