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  2. Citizen: An American Lyric - Wikipedia

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    Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. [2]

  3. Trans poetry - Wikipedia

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    Trans poetry is a type of transgender literature which explores the individuality, gender identity, and accounts of life experiences by transgender poets. Some aspects of trans poetry fall under the umbrella of protest literature and speak to the hegemonic worldview, presenting the agenda of injustice subjected by the oppressed. Other examples ...

  4. This Bridge Called My Back - Wikipedia

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    While Anzaldúa primarily highlights her sexual orientation as a disturbance in her relationship with her mother, racial oppression and her mother’s attempt to shield her daughter from them result in further disturbance within the two [13] [14]. This racial contrast creates a lost sense of personal identity and a challenging fit in a ...

  5. June Jordan - Wikipedia

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    The first is the common identity, which is the one that has been imposed on us [30] by a long history of societal standards, controlling images, pressure, a variety of stereotypes, and stratification. The second identity is the individual identity that we have chosen [30] once we are given the chance and feel are ready to expose our true selves.

  6. Andrea Gibson - Wikipedia

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    Gibson uses gender-neutral pronouns, specifically they/them/theirs. [9] Many of their poems are about gender identity, such as "Swing Set" and "Andrew". [10] Gibson has said, regarding gender, "I don't necessarily identify within a gender binary. I've never in my life really felt like a woman and I've certainly never felt like a man.

  7. Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    In the course of her work, Angelou changed her views about Black-white relationships and learned to accept different points of view. It was the changes in how she regarded race and her views of white people that provided Angelou with freedom. According to Hagen, one of Angelou's themes was that humans tend to be more alike than different. [29]

  8. Barbie Doll (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Barbie Doll" is a narrative poem written by American writer, novelist, and social activist Marge Piercy. It was published in 1971, during the time of second-wave feminism . It is often noted for its message of how a patriarchal society puts expectations and pressures on women, partly through gender role stereotyping.

  9. Pauli Murray - Wikipedia

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    Initially published in 1970, the poetry collection, Dark Testament, was reissued in 2018. Murray's sexual and gender identity did not fit within the prevailing norms. She had a brief, annulled marriage to a man, and several deep relationships with women. In her younger years, she occasionally had passed as a teenage boy. [9]