After reading Rosetta Tharpe and Feminist “unforgetting” I was really surprised that first of all teachers would tell writers that If they wrote a book on a single person it was like considering a “professional dead end”. This happens a lot in our education system. We are taught to follow these rules and regulations and we can never be free and have freedom through our work. I really liked how she talked about the biographies being more male centered. For me as a women of color I see how this affects our lives everyday. On the top of the pyramid it is always a white male. Something that caught me off guard was when she said that by writing the biography it was a decision that would help with “intervention”. I am not sure if I did not understand the writing right. But what I got from it was that she didn’t want to be “loud” she didn’t want to be disruptive through her work and she felt like by writing the biography she would be more respectful. In my opinion I feel like what better way to inform and call out people on these type of subjects than by being loud? For me as a Latina I was always scared to correct people and confront them on their racist comments. I felt like if I did then I would just be living up to the stereotype of latina. Then I started reading the article Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe Inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, class of 2018. It is so crazy to me that someone as amazing as her it would take this long of time to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. The way they talk about her is so empowering. They talked about how she was “ less concerned with what others chose to call her music than whether it moved them”. This is the type of careless I want to be. She didn’t care what they called her music she just wanted them to be moved by it. She just wanted them to recognize the music and it very sad that people of color have to work 10 times harder to have our art, work, power be good enough to be shown off.
Faultless By Tarralyn
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