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whoever i am, i’m a fat womon

Poetry Performance by Sharon Lia Robinson © 1979, © 2014

 Poetry by Sharon Lia Robinson. This is a 1979 film of my early feminist poem “whoever i am, i’m a fat womon.”

This poem was written in 1976 and is in my 1978 chapbook, “fat womon/renaissance” and also in the anthology, Shadow on a Tightrope, (writings by women on fat oppression). Please share/post this archival poetry film for others to see.

“whoever i am, i’m a fat womon” was originally filmed  by Lynne Conroy in January, 1979.  For the Theater Project of the  Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lynne Conroy and I were theater students there.

This film is a rehearsal for the Radcliffe College Women’s Theater Festival, January 1979, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2008 I researched and arranged for technical transfer of the 1979 reel to reel 1/2 inch videotape to DVD. In May, 2014, Reverend Ed Evans of Sequim, Washington, did the film editing for putting this poem onto youtube.

Produced by Sharon Lia Robinson, May, 2014, with screen titles and roses.

Here is another poem from the 1979 film by Lynne Conroy.

Uninvited Space
by Sharon Lia  Robinson

a great fat woman

hips swaying wide

claims to be an actress

and you who see the film

might renounce old illusions

mistakes bad attractions

and you who know the score

recover your minds

to see you’ve been had

like this woman

remembering

the smile your eyes once buried

those looks which murdered her mind

like this woman

slashing contortions

shaming betrayals

shattering insults

dissolving the blindness

as she dazzles you with her life.

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9 responses to “whoever i am, i’m a fat womon”

  1. Margaret D. McGee says:
    May 10, 2014 at 9:07 am

    Sharon, wonderful work. I love seeing the young Sharon, reading powerful words with such confidence. Thanks for sharing this.

  2. J. Glenn Evans says:
    May 19, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    Beautifully performed with versatile images.

  3. Sharon Lia Robinson says:
    May 19, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    Thank you, Margaret, for your inspiration and ideas for this project.

  4. Sharon Lia Robinson says:
    May 19, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Thank you, J. Glenn. I appreciate your encouraging response.

  5. Barbara Bowen says:
    July 22, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    Sharon, Powerful poem and reading, and I loved seeing you as your 1979 self.

  6. Sharon Lia Robinson says:
    July 23, 2014 at 9:44 am

    Thank you so very much, Barbara.

  7. Dee Dee Kirwan says:
    August 31, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    Sharon ~

    Thank you SO much for thinking of me and sharing this with me. What a powerful, rich, inspiring!! poem! The imagery seems boundless and endless….and your expressions throughout carried the depth of everything being given through those words. Very moving, Sharon. Very Beautiful. The Rose indeed <3

    Dee Dee Kirwan

  8. Dee Dee Kirwan says:
    August 31, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Sharon ~

    Thank you SO much for thinking of me and sharing this with me. What a powerful, rich, inspiring!! poem! The imagery seems boundless and endless….and your expressions throughout carried the depth of everything being given through those words. Very moving, Sharon. Very Beautiful. The Rose indeed <3

    Dee Dee Kirwan

  9. Sharon Lia Robinson says:
    August 31, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    Thank you, Dee Dee, for reading the poem and your encouraging comments are wonderfully appreciated.

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