#anna blaman

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Anna Blaman, in de gedichten (1992)

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Charel Hungry For Kees by Ganymede1135 on DeviantArt

Charel Hungry For Kees by Ganymede1135

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Vrouwen, Anna Blaman (1939)

I

Haar armen glad en blank in 't lome

van donker tule, veel parfum en lippen

van karmijnrood - ik zie de tippen

van haar borsten deinend gaan en komen.

II

Winkel schemerig, veel stoffen op de toonbank

Zij buigt voorover in begerig kijken

Ik zie haar blouse soepel open wijken

en ben verzonken - diep en blank.

III

Haar benen lang en glad - zij lacht en ligt

loom achterover - ik zie hoe diep en ver de lijnen

van haar benen zijn en

denk eraan met afgewend gezicht.

IV

Zij lacht me door de spiegel toe, en let

daarbij op het effect van haar geschminkte ogen

Wat denk je, zegt ze traag, heb ik de bogen

van mijn wenkbrauwen goed aangezet?

[makingqueerhistory]

I swear, I whispered to myself, that for the rest of my life as pure and brave as possible I will try to be myself… Furthermore I will never get in the way of others in their turn being themselves… That was a tremendous important decision… As I understand it now, it is and will be till my dying breath, a very hard thing to do.

Anna Blaman

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hoe vaak zal het in jou niet zo geweest zijn dat je de liefde liefhad terwijl je dacht dat het de geliefde was

Anne (Quote Anna Blaman in Anne+)

[365daysoflesbians]

JANUARY 31: Anna Blaman (1905-1960)

We unfortunately don’t speak Dutch here, so we couldn’t make extensive research about Anna Blaman or her work, but this is what we gathered about the Dutch lesbian writer.

Queen Juliana and Anna Blaman, 1958 - source

Her real name is Johanna Petronella Vrugt. She was born in Rotterdam in 1905, and went on to pursue studies in French. She was a high school French teacher and lived for the major part of her life in her mother's boarding house. Her writing career began with her first publications - poems - in the literary magazines Criterium and Helikon. In 1941, her first novel came out, entitled Vrouw en vriend (Woman and Friend), followed by two novels, a novella, and two short story collections. In 1956, she received the P. C. Hooft Award. She left her last and fourth novel, De verliezers (The Losers), unfinished, but it was still published after her death in 1960 from a cerebral embolism. Her work is heavily tinged with Existentialist thinking and pessimism.

“Anna Blaman” was her pseudonym for writing, and it’s supposed to come from the name of Alie Bosch, a nurse who treated Vrugt for a kidney disease, and with whom Vrught fell in love (though it didn’t work out). Blaman was openly lesbian, and thus opened doors for other women in the Netherlands to claim their identities and emancipate themselves.

Here’s a profile of her in Dutch, and a list of her works and other documents pertaining to her.

- AK

[makingqueerhistory]

Anna Blaman — Making Queer History

To discuss the life and works of Anna Blaman, the discussion must begin with the culture of marriage within the Netherlands. While many applaud this country for its gender equality, the facts often do not support the praise. There is continuous work discussing the systems that uplift the most sexist

[Image Description: Black and white photo of a man and a woman shaking hands. The woman is Anna Blaman, a older white woman with short curly hair and glasses. She wears a pantsuit.]

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