Writing, Performance, Music, Environment, Gender, Crip Activism, and Parrots!
Two pieces by Kim Downs, one about his mother and one about his father. This footage was recorded by Kim’s father, Wayburn, in Rogers, Arkansas during the Ozpoets tour of the USA in 1994. Of course, with them both in the audience, it was an appropriate time to perform them directly to their subjects. ‘Sandstorm’ […]
Read More… Two more back to back performance poems. ’My Sister Has a New Set of Breasts’ was my early 1990s response to the increasing normalisation of plastic surgery being done to perfectly healthy, functional bodies. It poses the question, ‘If our bodies aren’t perfect in the way society currently envisions that notion, are we therefore unloveable?’ […]
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