to all of us anomalies as streetkids:
a well-earned truth.
the secret behind manifesting our big dreams is in working until our labor is worthy of our ambition. gotta thank Brittany Bosco for this one.
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Shawnta Smith and Jasmine Cruz, “We’re From Brooklyn, NY & The Bronx, NY”
Ex-lovers talk about living together and the meaning of their house and relationship. (Closed captioning available here)
omg, i am in LOVE with this video. awesome queer stories about building home, and community. <3
This is so powerful and beautiful.
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51 But the price was, the price for fighting back was this perception of being evil, bad people of being that negative element. We became the fearful other. Instead of being the welcomed other, now we were the fearful other.
The Young Lords and early Chicago Puerto Rican gangs (via anthropophagous)
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Adam Dachis at Lifehacker: Being the Better Person Will Teach People to Treat You Like Crap
“We’re taught to turn the other cheek—that being kind in the face of hostility is the better way to respond to conflict so love can overcome hate. According to psychologist Clifford N. Lazarus, writing for Psychology Today, that sort of reaction just teaches abusive people that their behavior is effective. Here’s why.
It all comes down to something called the “Law of Effect”, which refers to the way people interpret and understand the behavior of others. For example, if someone treats you poorly and you treat them kindly, the effect produced by their bad behavior is your affection. By being nice to mean people, you’re essentially creating a reward system for bad behavior.
This doesn’t mean you should devolve into a complete asshole anytime you encounter one, but it is important to remember that there is such thing as being too nice. When someone does something that bothers you, it’s important to take that immediate opportunity to tell them. Being kind is often just an excuse to avoid necessary conflict. You don’t have to be a jerk, but you do have to confront the situation or risk encouraging the bad behavior you’re seeking to prevent.”
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White Jesus modeled on Cesare Borgia?
The theory is that people were generally not too enthusiastic about the Catholic Church’s regular massacres of Jews and Crusades against Muslims, because the people they were killing looked like Jesus. Pope Alexander VI then ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus. His son, Cardinal Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings. Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus so loved by Christians today.
In 1995, GZA’s Liquid Swords album featured the solo track by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate, Killah Priest, ”B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)”. The lyrics include the lines; “I even learnt Caucasians were really the Tribe of Edam, The white image, of Christ, is really Cesare Borgia”
hmmmm
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This is a short film in fake American English. It’s funny how the accent can replace the words, so that all you hear is the accent.
Home Alive is a documentary about the social justice and anti-violence group Home Alive, founded in the wake of Mia Zapata’s death. It’s important to note that it isn’t a “look at this women’s empowerment group they started for their friend” kind of thing. As Roni Tartlett notes in the trailer, they worked to understand violence in a systemic way. (I know I am always going on about Ka-Mer, but the work is very similar in approach.)
Home Alive also functioned as a collective, with all of the hassle involved, and it’s important that the documentary is also going to look at what it is like to keep something like that going for seven years. (HA shut down in 2010.)
I think it is going to be really smart and can’t wait to see it! THey have a kickstarter going, if you are able to support.
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Ignorance is excusable when it is borne like a cross, but when it is wielded like an ax, and with moral indignation, then it becomes something else indeed.
Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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