Sunday, April 4, 2010

Exhibited



What Saartjie Baartman says to Afong Moy:
They shall never again call me Hottentot Venus

Afong Moy: They still call me Afong Moy
Before that
Juila Foochee ching-chang king

And what is your name?
No one knows
My name is also not my name
It made no difference to them
They made me gyrate nude
They made me show my feet
They treated me like an animal
They treated me like a doll
I was a slave, left to die
I was a curio, left to disappear

from memory

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