3 lessons from 'The Laugh of the Medusa'

 

I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies—for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text—as into the world and into history—by her own movement.

 

Hélène Cixous

The Laugh of the Medusa (1975)

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visual poetic prompt

From High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by Samuel Howard Monell via Internet Archive / Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine