Talk:Mririda n'Ait Attik

Latest comment: 28 days ago by Pascalulu88 in topic Bisexuality and possible later life

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The currently most-used citation, "theblankgarden.com", doesn't seem reliable to me. A collection of Attik's work with what seems like a very informative forward is available on Archive (https://archive.org/details/les_chants_de_la_tassaout/page/n1/mode/2up), but it's in French. Perhaps someone that knows French could use this source to improve the citations for this page sometime. Blueshiftofdeath (talk) 18:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bisexuality and possible later life

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The article has no mention of the fact that some of her poems are love poems addressed to other women in her home town. This was no big deal in her community because it did not involve either woman cheating on their husband with another man. What women got up to amongst themselves was beneath the notice of men. She also has a quite moving poem about her reaction to her husband marrying a much younger woman as a second wife and neglecting her after that.

Also, if I can find a reliable source for this, I will update the article, but it seems that French researchers who visited her area in the 1960s or 1970s were told by people who remembered her that she had married a French officer and moved away to a "suburb of Casablanca", so it is quite likely that she may have lived into the 1970s or 80s. Pascalulu88 (talk) 19:46, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply