clarissa

QUEEN OF ALL PIRATES
GENDER / IDENTITY
THEORICAL GRRRL
BIBLIOGRAFIA
CLARISSA
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IN ANY SOCIETY BASED ON CLASS, HUMILIATION IS A

POLITICAL REALITY. HUMILIATION IS ONE METHOD BY WHICH

POLITICAL POWER IS TRANSFORMED INTO SOCIAL OR PERSONAL

RELATIONSHIPS. THE PERSONAL INTERIORIZATION OF THE

PRACTICE OF HUMILIATION IS CALLED HUMILITY.



CAPITOL IS AN ARTIST WHO MAKES DOLLS. MAKES, DAMAGES,

TRANSFORMS, SMASHES. ONE OF HER DOLLS IS A WRITER

DOLL. THE WRITER DOLL ISN'T VERY LARGE AND IS ALL

HAIR, HORSE MANE HAIR, RAT FUR, DIRTY HUMAN HAIR,

PUSSY.

ONE NIGHT CAPITOL GAVE THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO TO

HER WRITER DOLL:



As a child in sixth grade in a North American school,

won first prize in a poetry contest.

In late teens and early twenties, entered New York

City poetry world. Prominent Black Mountain poets,

mainly male, taught or attempted to teach her that a

writer becomes a writer when and only when he finds his

own voice.



CAPITOL DIDN'T MAKE ANY AVANT-GARDE POET DOLLS.



Since wanted to be a writer, tried hard to find her own

voice. Couldn't. But still loved to write. Loved to

play with language. Language was material like clay or

paint. Loved to play with verbal material, build up

slums and mansions, demolish banks and half-rotten

buildings, even buildings which she herself had

constructed, into never-before-seen, even unseeable

jewels.

To her, every word wasn't only material in itself,

but also sent out like beacons, other words. Blue

sent out heaven and The Virgin. Material is rich.

I didn't create language, writer...