Speech by Jacqui Germain Highlighted in Spectre

Thank you to Spectre for revisiting a speech and poetry reading by AHP author Jacqui Germain. Germain gave these remarks last August at the St. Louis Symposium on the Radical Arts. Her insightful words posed thought-provoking questions, and she ended her speech by reading a few poems from her AHP collection Bittering the Wound.

In the speech, Germain said:

The only way a radical or revolutionary left could win a captured landscape is to have freed it. Our task is not to struggle over portions of the pie or seats at the table; our task is to challenge the legitimacy and hubris of such a small group of people owning the kitchen itself, and having the audacity to guard it with guns. Our task is to show people there are other ways for us all to be fed.

Read the rest of the transcript and poems here!