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Still I Rise tattoo - inappropriate for a white woman?

78 replies

teawamutu · 27/06/2020 10:19

Probably stupid middle class navel gazing, but...

Maya Angelou's poem is the most inspiring piece of writing in the world to me. Beautiful and uplifting and universal.

I've been toying for ages with getting a line from the poem as a tattoo, but concerned it would be cultural appropriation. I know MA was a self-declared feminist but that's not the primary focus of the poem.

Would you? And MNers who are POC, would you find it disrespectful?

OP posts:
LiterallyProblematic · 27/06/2020 10:31

Every single thing you do will fail at least purity test. Get whatever tattoo you want but make sure you love it and are proud of it and have the stamina and energy to stand up for it, because in today’s deranged climate, someone somewhere will object to it.

chubbyhotchoc · 27/06/2020 10:27

To me it is also about the struggle of being female and the problematic male gaze so I can't see a problem with it.

merrymouse · 27/06/2020 10:24

I think that if you have any doubts you shouldn't get the tattoo.

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