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When one wonders what the novel’s overriding purpose is, it is difficult not to think of the present war in Afghanistan. Is this a national epic, designed to express our spirit, stand for us and speak for us? Or is it only meant to speak for Crowley, as a kind of spiritual autobiography, somehow chronicling his own awakening to the power of poetry and love...
...songs have become lyrical gems, with the emotional twists and turns that have always been her great joy to express to live audiences. She is big on poems themselves these days, performing them straight up, new and old, at all of her recent concerts. She prefaced her newest song, inaugurated Friday night, by reading two short poems by the poet Lucille Clifton. The new song is provocative, and incredibly verbose, jam packed with the kind of raw melodic vocal preaching that DiFranco fans have come to expect. Before reading Clifton’s poem Ani grinningly declared with typical candor...
...Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the Radcliffe Union of Students, with the express support of more than a dozen other campus organizations, have been handing out cards on campus with purple ribbons as women’s groups and others participate in Take Back the Night activities this week. Although this movement initially sought to make the streets safe for women to walk alone at night, now—at Harvard anyway—it means “raising awareness about sexual violence and other women’s issues.” The cards being handed out implore...
...wearing of ribbons to express compassion for victims was popularized with yellow military ribbons, but ribbons became a common symbol with the AIDS Awareness Ribbons campaign. According to Visual AIDS, the advocacy group that began the campaign in 1991, the ribbons were intended to represent compassion for victims, but became a symbol of awareness. AIDS and sexual violence are widely misunderstood problems, and their victims both deserve compassion—but ribbon-wearing itself does nothing to actually increase knowledge and is not a sincere or significant means of expressing emotion...
...campaign shows how easily the term “raise awareness” can become a euphemism for “advertise.” Ribbons should be a way to express a sincere dedication to an issue, not just a more profound way of advertising than posters or fliers, which we so often discard or ignore...