LAURA MCCULLOUGH

Sara Marie Ortiz: Singing True is Hard to Do

2/5/2015

 
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Sara Marie Ortiz's essay is the second one in the anthology. Here she explores questions and answers and the difficult relationship ways we navigate between them.

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Part I. Starting

Signifier and signified.

I have never written about race. I figured a great way to start would be to start with a great title, so I wrote Creation and Re-imagining Race: Self-actualization in Contemporary Indigenous Poetics and then I realized that I had never written about race before. Not really. And then, after beginning to dig a bit deeper, I realized that every single thing I'd ever written, said, done, sung, danced, loathed, dismissed, raged quietly at, and forgotten entirely. . .was, in fact, about race. 

I started, stopped, started, then stopped again. 
Part II. Asking

I knew there were some important questions that I needed to try and answer if I was going to come even close to speaking to my 'topic.'

None of it was topical. It was all a sticky matted fabric of memory and experience. I had lied to myself about race and my "okay-ness" with it all, I realized.

A lot.

Questions:

What do you really want to say about race and Indigenous poetics?

Why should anyone care?




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