![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anonymous posters, whether trolling or in seriousness, criticised the event for being racist and sexist due to white men being excluded, despite everyone being welcome to attend. Unsurprisingly, with the rise of the Facebook page ‘ExeHonestly’, in which Exeter students can anonymously post their opinions without fear of public condemnation, people began their vitriolic onslaught against the event. It will be a night to celebrate the poetry of women and non-binary people of colour, giving a platform to under-represented voices in order to create a dialogue of progression. The poetry event in question is the annual Women of Colour Poetry Night held by Exeter’s Feminist Society, in collaboration with the Creative Writing Society and the African-Caribbean Society, to be held on 6 March. As marginalised groups are finally being given an exclusive platform to express their views, outrage ensued due to white men’s entitlement to a space in which oppression has never affected them. In contrast, the “anon” of today would rather, ironically, demonise a poetry night whose performers are exclusively women and non-binary people of colour. VIRGINIA Woolf famously said that “anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman”. Online Lifestyle Editor, Amy Butterworth, highlights the value of events like FemSoc’s Women of Colour Poetry Night and the need to decolonise the arts ![]()
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