Dec 11 2009
The Past
Danny Senna’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night? showed us her past as a bi-racial child of a black father and a white mother. I thought it was interesting how she wrote about her family and her father’s past. Even with her father’s disapproval of the book, Senna continued with it. It seems to be me that Senna’s strength to write about this comes from her curiosity to know the past. With the family problems that she had, I thought that Senna does a great job in sharing it with us in her book. To a lesser extreme, her story made me think about my own family. I remembered all the time s I had with my family and how my dad always said that I have a very good life compared to him when he was my age. It makes we wonder how hard my dad’s life was back then and the struggles he went through to be where he is now.
I dunno if I agree with you Rhianna, these concepts of “strength” regarding Senna and the feminist videos seemed to be different types of “strength” and struggle.
Rhianna: I like your comparison of her strenght with the Brooklyn Feminism exhibition; quite apt.
I’m not really sure what you guys mean when you say that she “deserves more credit.” She was able to find her family’s story and then tell the world about it. What more does she “deserve?”
I agree that she does deserve more credit than she is necessarily given, and I also think Jason should talk to his father about his past to find out what kind of life he has led. I’m sure it will be interesting.
Jason, the strength you talk about in your blog is so parallel to the picture you’ve posted of her. Her “strength” goes hand-in-hand with the feminism exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. She deserves more credit than that which we’ve given her.