woke high school

I was in that one huge lecture hall at siue and the assignment was write a spoken word rap or just sing, and there were certain topics you could pick.

it was heavy topics like intersectionality and transphobia towards trans men I kept trying to write mine as other people were going around me. the guy next to me kept side eyeing my notes so I switched half way through to writing about anti-lesbianism. I was writing something like "she is soft as silk, tough as stone. guarding oneself, the best skill to know" and then I had a laptop in front of me and I googled "what rhymes with lesbians" and it came up with some town in italy. I remember thinking "ok I'll bring up sappho then, cause ancient lesbian > italy/greece?"

while I was looking this up, the girl in front of me was going, it was jane doe [person i went to high school with]. she doing her song about greater lgbt issues, but she was literally just singing love story by taylor swift. she wouldn't stop either, like she kept going until she got to the chorus and eventually other people joined in to sing with her mockingly.

she finally quit and the professor sighed and shook his head. then he looked at her, glanced at me, and called me to go next. I immediately woke up.

7 february 2021