The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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