Will Morgan
Will Morgan
Will Morganis a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented District 56B, which includes portions of Dakota County in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a physics teacher at Burnsville High School in Burnsville...
discovery voice gestures
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
fiction language invisible
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
agony white skins
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
inspirational peace impossible
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
justice feminist peaceful
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
running giving-up men
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
white environmental today
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
inspiring men
We are the women men warned us about.
oppression sexism models
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
women chinese slave
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
feminism world culture
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
sister powerful sisterhood
Sisterhood is powerful.
self world splits
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?