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The opening stanzas of “Where Will You Be?”, as printed in\u00a0conditions: five<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n The speaker in \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d uses images of religious persecution, linking queer people of the late twentieth century to the victims of the Crusades and World War II. This comparison begins the poem, as the speaker describes: \u201cOnce again flags of Christ \/ are unfurled in the dawn \/ and cries of soul saviors \/ sign apocalyptic on air waves\u201d (5-8). However, the speaker argues that the perpetrators of this war will appear in a different way, and \u201cThey will not come \/ clothed in brown, \/ and swastikas, or \/ bearing chest heavy with \/ gleaming cross. The time and need \/ for ruses are over\u201d (31-37). During both the Crusades and World War II, religious people were targeted and killed; in this next war, queer people become the next victims. In this poem, the speaker condemns religious people as \u201csoul saviors\u201d who wave \u201cflags of Christ\u201d and attack queer people (7, 5). Therefore, religious people become persecutors instead of the persecuted, and the speaker uses images of religious wars to reverse these roles.<\/p>\n Once again, a speaker reflects upon her own oppression and grounds these reflections in historical events. In \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d the speaker asks her audience to change these reflections and their shared oppression into concrete action. Like other periodicals of the Feminist Poetry Movement, conditions: five<\/em>\u2014the 1979 Black women\u2019s edition of conditions<\/em> which includes \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d\u2014prompted dialogue among women of color and resistance to their oppressors. Poems like \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d guided the tangible resistance of Second Wave Feminism\u2014another type of war fought at the end of the twentieth century. In \u201cI am Brown,\u201d \u201cI Walk in the History of My People,\u201d and \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d Third World women embrace their personal histories and embrace each other as they enter a feminist narrative usually dominated by the voices of white women.<\/p>\n Sources:<\/p>\n conditions: five,<\/em> vol. 1, no. 5, 1979.<\/p>\n Parker, Pat. \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d. conditions: five,<\/em> vol. 1, no. 5, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In \u201cWhere Will You Be?\u201d the speaker warns her audience that \u201cthe crusade has begun\u201d and calls on them to resist this new war (4). \u201cThey will come,\u201d the speaker explains, to \u201cremove the evil, \/ the queerness, \/ the … Continue reading