By Kinship Communications on Monday, 12 October 2015
Category: News Updates

Summer Reading Group: Sex and Privy

12 October 2015 | KEISHA E. MCKENZIE  



This is the ninth post in a ten-part series for Spectrum’s 2015 Summer Reading Group. Each post will be drawn from chapters of the book Unclean by Richard Beck. You can view the tentative reading/posting schedule here.

At the start of Unclean, Beck quotes from a Walt Whitman poem:


This is the meal pleasantly set…this is the meal 
and drink for natural hunger, 
It is for the wicked just the same as for the righteous
I make appointments with all.
I will not have a single person slighted or left away, 
The kept woman and sponger and thief are hereby invited…
the heavy-lipped slave is invited… the venerealee is invited,
There shall be no difference between them and the rest.

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