#Genny Lim

[serious2020]

(via HAITI SOLIDARITY: A CONCERT & FUNDRAISER)

[rebeldyke]

[poeticanthologies]

Wonder Woman by Genny Lim (1981)

from This Bridge Called my Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, 2015 [first edition 1981].

[inthemarginalized]

My priority has never been to fit in a particular box. 

 - Genny Lim (b. 1946)

 She is a Chinese-American poet, playwright, and performer.

[ethelcainsboobs]

Wonder Woman, Genny Lim

[rose-teeth]

[18mr]

Unbound Feet was a Chinese American feminist writing and performance collective based in the Bay Area. Their pioneering work created new pathways for Asian American feminists and performance artists today.

Nellie Wong, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, Canyon Sam, Nancy Hom, and Merle Woo were collective members. Their work explored sexist and racist oppression in society, immigration, family issues, and challenged stereotypes of Chinese women as passive and servile. 

By being out lesbian performers, Tsui, Sam, and Woo helped bring visibility to lesbians within the Asian American community and developed a large Asian lesbian following. 

The flyer below advertised Unbound Feet's last reading before the collective disbanded in 1981. Three members - Wong, Tsui, and Woo - tried to continue performing as Unbound Feet Three. But, a dispute ensued over the name and their efforts ended.

[hernamewasluna]

Celebrating Asian American resisters Nellie Wong, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, Canyon Sam, Nancy Hom and Merle Woo, they explored sexist and racist oppression in the Bay Area, challenged stereotypes of Chinese women as passive and servile. Their pioneering work created new pathways for Asian American feminists and performance artists today. Out lesbians Tsui, Sam, and Woo helped bring visibility to lesbians within the Asian American community and developed a large Asian lesbian following. It's sad and maddening that lesbian erasure is happening, when gender ID > sex, cannibalisation of women only spaces, female linguistics, lesbian stories and lesbian history has occured. Photo courtesy of @18millionrising

[senzalinea-blog]

Venerdì 5 aprile 2019 - Start ore 21.00 - La Locanda del Mare, Via Linora - Paestum Salerno INGRESSO GRATUITO GENNY LIM, icona della Jazz Poetry Al contrabbasso il jazzista ALDO VIGORITO

Venerdì 5 aprile 2019 – Start ore 21.00 – La Locanda del Mare, Via Linora – Paestum Salerno INGRESSO GRATUITO GENNY LIM, icona della Jazz Poetry Al contrabbasso il jazzista ALDO VIGORITO

Una persona che sogna farfalle, sotto i ponti della sua città, è una persona che riconosce le sue origini e, soprattutto riconosce la funzione della bellezza e della poesia, al di sopra del fuoco e della distruzione, come una forma di insegnamento che il linguaggio è come un veliero, che può far viaggiare la memoria attraverso l’oceano e il tempo. Come nelle poesie di Genny Lim, la storia sempre…

[heaven-handmade]

Week #1 Reading Reflections

“Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture.” by Susana Loza

aaaa

“Wonder Woman” by Genny Lim from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, pp. 23-26

aaaa

“La Guera” by Cherrie Moraga from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, pp. 27-34

I share the same sentiments Moraga does about oppression in this reading on how it affects people based on trivial, yet detrimental, details such as skin color. I’m light skinned and people don’t usually guess my Mexican ethnicity right, and that mixed in with the fact I live in Williamsburg gives me a certain privilege. It is one where people automatically assume I have money and am some artsy hipster, when the truth is my parents have lived in Williamsburg since they were 16 years old, our building is rent controlled, both of my parents work tirelessly, and I don’t spend any of my money in my own neighborhood because of how expensive it is. Similar to Moraga, I used to not see or pay that privilege much attention before but now I know just how much it separates me from other Mexican women so I agree with her when she says “[...] to remember may mean giving up whatever privileges we have managed to squeeze out of this society by virtue of our gender, race, class, or sexuality” (30). I think many white Latinx women fail black Latinx women when they do not acknowledge where their skin color puts them on the oppression versus privilege scale. I understand that being a woman of color is hard in itself and even if society sees us as white passing or straight or female, our own people and families are often heterosexist and misogynist so the benefits that work outside in the world don’t always transfer inside our homes. However, choosing not to do anything about our privilege is, to me, a contribution to oppression.

“One Is Not Born a Woman” from The Straight Mind by Monique Wittig

I’m not a big fan of this reading, it seems outdated to me and is a general understanding on gender oppression at its best. My main problem with this reading is that it does not recognize non-binary and transgender people enough if at all. However, I will say that I agree with Wittig when she says “one is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” I think the concept of there only being two sexes is a dangerous one, one that not only prevents people from identifying and being themselves fully and unapologetically but inprisions us into following a model of “ideal” oppressive living. Additionally, I found that her writing was angry and almost like if she was pointing a finger at my chest as she got her words out. I’m not particularly put off by this, I like that the pages bleed with her passionate emotions and thoughts on feminism and gender oppression. Anyway as it is right now I am not impressed by her work, but that may just be because I’ve read more inclusive work before her��s or because I haven’t looked into her profile, perhaps I’ll give Wittig another read and do some research before making up my mind on her.

[serious2020]

HAITI SOLIDARITY: A CONCERT & FUNDRAISER

OCTOBER 6, 2024 !!!!! Don’t miss this fantastic cultural evening, a fundraiser for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund [HERF]. All funds to HERF go directly to support the grassroots struggle in Haiti. Also a book launch for Brassroots Democracy by Ben Barson. “Barson reveals a new revolutionary genealogy of jazz based in the popular struggles of Haiti, Mexico and the plantation regions of the…

[rantingsofadamnstudent-blog]

Response to Wonder Woman

As humans, we need to feel belonged, we need to find something to identify with. Being LGBTQ, being Hispanic, being disabled. No one gets to choose how they are born, but we all need to belong. The poem by Genny Lim talks about this and I feel like Goes in to speak about the complexity of our lives. How we live, how others live/ What we see going on in our lives and in others. The quote i posted before speaks to a theory in the flesh. We need justifications for complicated things. where we don’t fit in and where we don’t want to. Everything we feel is our identity and if it doesn’t fit into what society deems correct, we are rebellious, we are wrong and it is our fault that they don’t understand us. For that, we must choose how we feel the world wants to see us and go on with that. Speak predominately English outside, talk Spanish at home and say nothing to a “Man”. Being a woman is already 1 strike against you and you did nothing at all. In the poem, it also doesn’t talk about a woman working, it is the wife of a professor or a woman in poverty cleaning. never a woman doctor. Why? Because Society.

[michaelwarr-creativework]

A POETIC CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE & LEGACY OF JANICE MIRIKITANI

We celebrate the life of Janice Mirikitani with poetry this Saturday (8.14.21)...

Poets include Tongo Eisen-Martin, Kim Shuck, Alejandro Murguía, Jack Hirschman, devorah major, Aileen Cassinetto, Susan Kitazawa, Genny Lim, Lauren Ito, Sandy Mori, Kimi Sugioka, Dr Mary Wardell Ghirarduzzi, Nelly Wong, Michael Warr, and others not yet announced.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2 PM PDT Event by San Francisco Public Library https://sfpl-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcode6hpzwpGdfzhYU1h7qPPqXY213GBtx1?fbclid=IwAR2c3gVAuSS-xkbagG_wa_1On95kl5ZAd5wkil919f77fjR7pSs8CN7ToIc

[inthemarginalized]

I am what I am. Chinese, American, woman--not in that particular order, mind you. I could have said it the other way around as well. Labeling is a preoccupation of mass media, marketers, and politicians who need to classify their products or politics for consumers and constituents. Culture changes all the time because circumstances and people change. - Genny Lim (b. 1946)

She is a Chinese-American poet, playwright, and performer.

[slffashion]

Fashion Trend for SS20: Bohemian style Knitted Crochet.

- Summer Beach Crochet Bralette Top.

STAUD, Altuzarra, Genny, 3.1 Phillip Lim Spring Summer 2020.

More.

[sfjazz]

Music and poetry harmonize at SFJAZZ Poetry fest

http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Music-and-poetry-harmonize-at-SFJazz-fest-11050689.php

By David Wiegand Published 6:06 pm, Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Jazz and contemporary poetry seem made for each other, and you’ll get to see and hear why at the SFJazz Poetry Festival, co-presented by Litquake. The opening program features Ishmael Reed, Tennessee Reed, San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murgía and Sensei poet and activist Janice Mirikitani. The festival opens at 8 p.m. at the Joe Henderson Lab at the SFJazz Center.

Friday, April 7, the festival continues with Rico Pabon and musicians, poet Jennifer Barone and saxophonist Daniel Heffez, and poet Mo Sati with oud player Claude Palmer in the Peace Matters program. Marc Bamuthi Joseph and musicians headline the Saturday, April 8, Black Lives Matter program, with musician and poet Lewis Jordan, and multi-instrumentalist Avoctja.

The festival concludes with “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite,” on Sunday, April 9, with SFJazz Poet Laureate Genny Lim andAnthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. Also on the bill are devorah major and Destiny Muhammad.

— David Wiegand

2017 SFJazz Poetry Festival: 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, April 6-9. $15. Joe Henderson Lab, SFJazz Center, 201 Franklin St., S.F.www.sfjazz.org