We could do with a bit of that here

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/chinese-celebrities-warned-over-morality-in-cultural-crackdown

e Hara i te Waiata pono

 First of all, I reverence to the late Audre Geraldine Lorde, Caribbean/American black activist, poet, lecturer, mother and guiding light for feminism.  Openly gay, she travelled extensively and opened dialogue on racism, sexism and the patriarchy.   Her inspirational writings buttress the foundations of the fight against slavery, sexual, psychological and mind-slavery, her work shines, a contemporary of Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, Marcia Hines, Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt, to name a few.

Now her name is usurped by a popstar from the nether regions for reasons unfathomable, without preamble or acknowledgement of the respect due an old warhorse, Poet Laureate of New York, cannon in the literate world and feminist icon.   Audre Lorde adopted the pen name Zami.  She had two children to a Rollins so I wonder whether the use of this name Lorde has bothered them.  Her father was Frederick Byron Lorde from Barbados, her mother Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde from Carriacou, Grenada.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Linda+Gertrude+Belmar+Lorde&sa=X&rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ704NZ709&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LUz9U3MEypMLNQ4gIx85LKM8xStCSzk630C1LzC3JSgVRRcX6eVUFiUWpeSfEiVmmfzLyURAX31KKSotKUVAWn1JzcxCIFn_yilNQdrIwAbLviR1UAAAA&sxsrf=AOaemvJ-dqtij0g442cnuevOzBB_aAU1Vg:1631827431854&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=UP10q4yumLsxQM%252CjbTmLZm1-p4JsM%252C%252Fm%252F0nbwh6d&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSJv4QD6_JteNi-AuBjv0t3V38-jQ&ved=2ahUKEwie2aPztoTzAhVIzTgGHX31B3YQ_B16BAguEAI&biw=1400&bih=729&dpr=2#imgrc=UP10q4yumLsxQM

from the ruins of my bedroom

hangs a spikey misty glare

ko nga kupu ka tuhia ano kaore ano kia whanau

mai i taku puku ka tino haea..

"How I send my love, my dear,  knowing of your struggle here,

 kisses blowing on the wind,  memories of you rescind,"  ~  Audre G. Lorde 1934-1992

Secondly I tautoko  you, matua, who brings light to the darkness and spirit to movement,  for your article: https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/tokenism-in-full-force-my-take-on-lordes-album            tokenism yes, but also UMG lizards on the make with their fancy high tech: "Ella is used to working in a specific way.." yeah right...

from the Nissan to the pulsar, from the pulsar to the moon, 

your corporate recipe for angst & sorrow Jack&Ella

I had to hold my nose and mute the sound like Ulyses' crew but listen I did :(  it actually gave me a heart attack.