Questions from Pashazade
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ailbhe1)What does the painting do for you?
It makes me happy and soothes my soul, it gives me a sense of achievement especially when other people like it, and it gives me access to using colour in a way nothing else in my life quite manages.
2)At what point (if ever) will you consider sending the children to a conventional school?
I'd send them to a conventional school if I thought it was the best thing for them. I'd allow them to attend a conventional school if they wanted to go and I thought it wasn't bad for them, same as swimming lessons, ballet, etc.
3)How did you come to develop your feminism? (I can't think of a better way to phrase it. For me there was a growing awareness that something was rotten in Denmark and it wasn't me. I'm wondering how your experiences differed from mine.)
My mother had a large hand in my feminism, I know that much. Developing it... when I was 14 my boyfriend gave me a feminist slogans tshirt, I was collecting feminist postcards as early as I had spending money, I had a piece in a schools art exhibition in the Women's Aid centre when I was 16. I was 14 when The X Case was in the news. I think growing up under the heel of the oppressor had something to do with it.
4)Whose poetry do you really love? Why?
Gosh. I used to love Yeats but have, for now at least, outgrown that. ee cummings for the hoppitty skip language playing. I really loved the book of god-that-woman-laureate-argh-clare-something I read, but I only read one, for the feminism and language precision. Dorothy Parker for the snark. Ogden Nash for the jollity and the unexpected knives. Alice Walker. I haven't read as much Maya Angelou as I'd like but I like what I've read. I like language play, politics, joyfulness. I'm not so keen on "difficult" poetry - punchy or skippy is my thing at the moment.
5)To what extent do you think that being Irish has shaped your political outlook?
Growing up female in 1980s/1990s Ireland certainly shaped it like billyo, but I don't think *Irishness* per se has. That has affected my cultural outlook more than my political one, which may be a meaningless distinction.
It makes me happy and soothes my soul, it gives me a sense of achievement especially when other people like it, and it gives me access to using colour in a way nothing else in my life quite manages.
2)At what point (if ever) will you consider sending the children to a conventional school?
I'd send them to a conventional school if I thought it was the best thing for them. I'd allow them to attend a conventional school if they wanted to go and I thought it wasn't bad for them, same as swimming lessons, ballet, etc.
3)How did you come to develop your feminism? (I can't think of a better way to phrase it. For me there was a growing awareness that something was rotten in Denmark and it wasn't me. I'm wondering how your experiences differed from mine.)
My mother had a large hand in my feminism, I know that much. Developing it... when I was 14 my boyfriend gave me a feminist slogans tshirt, I was collecting feminist postcards as early as I had spending money, I had a piece in a schools art exhibition in the Women's Aid centre when I was 16. I was 14 when The X Case was in the news. I think growing up under the heel of the oppressor had something to do with it.
4)Whose poetry do you really love? Why?
Gosh. I used to love Yeats but have, for now at least, outgrown that. ee cummings for the hoppitty skip language playing. I really loved the book of god-that-woman-laureate-argh-clare-something I read, but I only read one, for the feminism and language precision. Dorothy Parker for the snark. Ogden Nash for the jollity and the unexpected knives. Alice Walker. I haven't read as much Maya Angelou as I'd like but I like what I've read. I like language play, politics, joyfulness. I'm not so keen on "difficult" poetry - punchy or skippy is my thing at the moment.
5)To what extent do you think that being Irish has shaped your political outlook?
Growing up female in 1980s/1990s Ireland certainly shaped it like billyo, but I don't think *Irishness* per se has. That has affected my cultural outlook more than my political one, which may be a meaningless distinction.