And when you leave take your pictures with you

Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us
sitting at a factory machine
wielding a machete
in our bright bandanas
holding brown yellow black red children
reading books from literacy campaigns
holding machine guns bayonets bombs
knives
Our white sisters
radical friends
love to own picture of us
walking to the fields in hot sun
with staw hat on head if brown
bandana if black
in bright embroided shirts
holding brown yellow black red children
reading books from literacy campaigns
smiling,

Our white sisters radical friends
should think again.
No one smiles
at the beginning of a day spent
digging for souvenir chunks of uranium
of cleaning up after
our white sisters
radical friends

And when our white sisters
radical friends see us
in the flesh
not as a picture they own,
they are not as quite sure
if
they like us as much.
We´re not as happy as we look
on their wall.

Jo Corillo in Moraga/Anzaludua:This Bridge called my Back
Writtings by Radical Woman of Colour.Kitchen Table 1983

Photos Marily Stroux-Portugal.