Clara Riggio
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Queer and Radical Women in the Third Reich
Hearing little about the Holocaust from my German family and learning the majority from museums and books that showed the ugly truth, I felt an overwhelming sense of guilt around my German heritage. It was a difficult thought process to acknowledge that my ancestors were most likely complicit, if not perpetrators, in the systematic murder of millions of Jewish, queer, Romani, and other oppressed peoples. I sought some sort of remedy for these dissonant thoughts; being ashamed of my lineage while also holding so much love for my family, their culture, and the country I come from.
By Clara Riggio5 years ago in FYI
Red
I bite my lip and pick at the skin and it drips red. Red like the strawberries that haunted her breath. Red like the anger pulsating through the engorged vein on her neck. Red as the sunset the night that he first told me he loved me. Redder still, my cheeks as I write. Sweating and thinking about reds past.
By Clara Riggio5 years ago in Poets
