Recurrent Themes                                       

• Coping with being between two cultures, two ways of being
• New, spontaneous ways of speaking / singing being better than the limiting old ways
• The sense of belonging conflicting with moving beyond limitations of one's culture
• Coming back to positive values of the "old culture" after rebirth into new identity
• Changing the old culture's symbols of female sexuality and of violence to women
• The old culture's notions of female domesticity as too limiting a space for the woman artist
• Survival of sexual, class and cultural conflict by means of a shifting reinfected self
• A woman merging present time and past memories, individual and collective voices, for a livable future
• Revising and then laying claim to one's culture's sexual identity (womanhood) by remembering and re-enacting childhood ties
• An intimate realm of safety ("All brown all around we are safe"), yet remaining threats of racial, cultural and sexual difference
• Turf and boundary conceived as confrontation, but with language ("Those Who Don't")