{"id":464,"date":"2009-09-03T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=464"},"modified":"2009-09-03T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T20:36:10","slug":"ana-lucia-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/ana-lucia-mendoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Luc\u00eda Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20090904-Ana_lucia_mendoza_final.jpg' width='138' height='164' alt='Ana Lucia Mendoza' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nI emphatically deny myself<br \/>\nfrom being reduced to body, desire, womb<br \/>\neven though She and the System cling to the contrary<!--more-->&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<b>Underneath the Myths<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I emphatically deny myself<br \/>\nfrom being reduced to body, desire, womb<br \/>\neven though She and the System cling to the contrary<br \/>\nand invite me to begin the daily battle<br \/>\nto occupy a place in the eyes of others<br \/>\nthe being of others, serving others,<br \/>\neven when in their desperate monologues<br \/>\nthey turn me into a child of deception, a woman<br \/>\nof deception<br \/>\nan image that I&#8217;ve mulled over for years<br \/>\n    swallowed for so many others<br \/>\n       finally vomiting.  <br \/>\nGoodbye, the complacent woman isn&#8217;t here anymore<br \/>\nGoodbye forever<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a woman to be oppressed<br \/>\n        to be locked up<br \/>\n        to be embarrassed<br \/>\n        to be ignored<br \/>\nyes, I am Woman<br \/>\nthough according to you and the majority<br \/>\nI am not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<b>When Fear Inhabits Me<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I empty my hands<br \/>\n    an abysmal loss from the intangible body of light<br \/>\nin their place<br \/>\nthey fill up with the air from the torn moon&#8217;s tomb<br \/>\nnever ending dreams hungry for darkness.<br \/>\nMy hands transfigure into a fleeting night<br \/>\nechoes of madness blend into death.<br \/>\nThanatos calls me to rest between the rotting<br \/>\none step away from nothingness<br \/>\nto lie next to the bold intangibility<br \/>\nof an exodus caused by fear.<\/p>\n<p><i>*Poems translated from the Spanish by Andr\u00e9s Alfaro<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;To read the original poems, <a href=\"https:\/\/teprometoanarquia.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/entre-la-multitud-se-abre-paso-el.html\">go HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I emphatically deny myself from being reduced to body, desire, womb even though She and the System cling to the contrary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}