Tertúlia Literária

Nome: Raissa Ventura Lopes

RGM: 28089014

Turma e turno: Estudos Linguísticos-Discursivos em Língua Inglesa IV

Poema escolhido: 

my issue with what they consider beautiful 

is their concept of beauty 

centers around excluding people 

i find hair beautiful 

when a woman wears 

it like a garden on her skin 

that is the definition of beauty 

big hooked noses 

pointing upward to the sky 

like they’re rising 

to the occasion 

skin the color of earth 

my ancestors planted crops on 

to feed a lineage of women with 

thighs thick as tree trunks 

eyes like almonds 

deeply hooded with conviction 

the rivers of punjab 

flow through my bloodstream so 

don’t tell me my women 

aren’t as beautiful 

as the ones in 

your country

Intertexto:

The book Milk and Honey written by Rupi Kaur it's a book that has four chapters of personal and touching poems. Shared in this four chapters, the author tell us about violence, family and feminility. For each reader, one of this topics may be more personal, but for me, a black woman, the parts that I felt more sensitive were the ones that Rupi tell us about the troubles and challenges of being a women, and in her case, an indian women. Her problems with the standard of beauty in this poem talks a lot about how the women who are not in this standard feels. In the song "Brown Skin Girl", that belong to the album called "The Lion King", Beyoncé talks about the black beauty, and how we glow and how we are beautiful and unique, valuing our skin color, our hair and bodies.This book and this music are crucial for us, women that are not in what some people call beauty standard, because this kind of work tell us that we are beautiful, and that we have do value ourselves, because not being in this beauty standard means nothing.

Thinking about how often people tells us that we are not beautiful, I took some photos of myself to show that even if some people say that we are not pretty because we are not in some beauty standard, we still rock!!!