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Lieutenant Nun: Freedom Through Violence?
This next paper was a response to Catalina De Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun. The main character runs away from the convent, dresses in drag, and has a fantastic life as a man. This was my response. Lieutenant Nun: Freedom Through Violence? In my opinion, Catalina De Erauso’s adventurous tale of the transvestite nun is fascinating. Her story exposes how a woman views man’s social standing through freedom and access. Even an unknown man has the freedom to gamble, make money, and receive an education if he chooses. However, it soon becomes clear that this freedom is attained through violence. Soon after Erauso flees the convent she is offered a job…
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The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side. Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I. My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes). The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…
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Roy G. Biv is Stalking Me
By Joy Lynn Clark August 11, 2016
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Onit
Onit by Dazee Dizzle
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You Got Me Wrong
5/18/2016 By Joy Lynn Clark “You Got Me Wrong performed by Dazee Dizzle” I love hip-hop. The first time I heard it I said, “I need to do that”. I love all kinds. Conscious, b-boy, gangsta, and the unusual. When I was much younger I was inspired by the conscious stuff, danced with the b-boys, and impressed by the courage of gangsta rap. At first there were more women although still not many. Years go by and I am trying to make it in rap. Rap was getting so big it was more mainstream than it had ever been and the theme: Pimps, Hos, and tricks. I had to find…
