La chaise, la silla, la sedia, a cadeira, & pessoa
a spontaneous performative response to gendered nouns and the thread of memory.
This morning, I read an article in the Guardian about the challenges of re-gendering language across Europe. I thought of my body; I looked at a chair and thought, “That is a woman.” Then, “I must go find work clothes and a chair I can carry.”
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