For my final project I want to do a video poem about ballet where it starts with a music box and a ballerina is spinning around. She symbolizes the unattainable perfection. It will explain the mind games that the culture of ballet plays with girls. It will show my experience from when I was little until now.

Slut Walk

Slut: Strong, Conscious, Confident, Aware, Unique, Decisive.

Slut: Dirty, Easy, Sure bet, Unpopular, not who you want your sister to be, insecure.

Walk: Strut, Swagger, cocksure, fierce, deliberate.

Walk: A command, “Leave,” “Get out!”

They see girls as either a bitch or a slut

Hurt by rejection they warn that this girl is a bitch

Proud from a hook-up they share embellished stories of honor

When they talk they talk fast

Riddled with laughs and sarcasm

Where the reality of what happened is irrelevant

                      

They give disapproving glances

Short skirts and bare skin equal a dress code violation

They promote Stigma against casual hook-ups and birth control

They decide girls want relationships and cuddling

Girls must see sex as an expression of love

Proper Girls adhere to their gender role

The Story of Edmund

Foster care

Lonely, helpless and poor

My family left me for drugs

Nobody makes it in this world alone

The other boys found support in each other

Now they rob, steal, and traffic drugs

On top of the world

My homie Tookie’s down

He told me I just have to kill one person

…

The guys said I did a great job

They’ve dubbed me “Bats”

Based on my murder weapon

Now they’ve got my back

Now I have a family

Brenda Hillman read some of her poems and described background information about her inspirations. She questions what animals think and the inner spirits inside pumpkins and other elements in nature. She even used animal language in one of her poems by mimicking squirrel sounds. Brenda says, "There's a spirit inside everything". Within her poems she utilizes the scientific or Latin names of ordinary words because she appreciates the sound and beauty of the words. Her belief in the spirit world prompts her to interpret the energy given off by inanimate objects. 

Hillman's poem, Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood, describes her discovery of poetry and how it helped her through her rough childhood and may even save the world. She discusses how critical kids are of pictures of themselves and how they want to correct their flaws. Hillman says there is "incomprehensible fire" in her eyes when she looks at her packet of pictures from picture day. At Macalaster when she explained her poem she said kids view their photos "knowing what will correct themselves", meaning they can see their flaws. She took comfort in poetry and reading. Poetry saved her from the torment of self judgment and she explains that poetry has the capacity to impact many people and undo the evils within society. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6-7eRjvRtg

Chemistry - Das Coo’

Americanium

Land of the free home of the brave

Gold - Platinum – Silver - Carbon

America loves dem precious metals

Chemistry = modern magic

Chemists? Aka wizards make

Americanium? Aka pop culture

Crack cocaine came from chemistry L

Breaking good.

Lucky money cats

Greetingz officer gold and beautiful. Fist pump lucky money cats. 

Make me money.

 Meow.

 Asian culture. 

Statue of sorts. Candy inside. Very rare. I love you…so much.

Will you be my valentine?

Dance all day. Just one arm.

You are my lucky charm. Donald Trump.