February 2012
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“Reduced to its biological preconditions, the insular structure of the producer’s...”
– Angela Davis, “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation”
Angela Davis, y’all. If more Feminists read Angela Davis, Feminism wouldn’t annoy me so much. This was in 1977, when she was in jail.
Anyway, this passage may be dense and hard to get through but last night it almost...
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"To My Old Master" →
liquornspice:
sourcedumal:
This letter is one of THE BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER READ!
This is the response letter to a white man asking his former slave to return and work for him….
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back...
Azealia Banks, a Young Rapper Taking Cues From the... →
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“You worry too much about the beat. But the beat comes out of the time - the...”
– “Just Above My Head” by James Baldwin (via nezua)
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via thatkindofwoman: coffeestainedpages: dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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“This whole ‘Civil Rights’ memetic apparatus has our people stuck on stupid. It...”
– http://denmarkvesey.blogspot.com/ (via howtobeterrell)
“In 1860 slaves as an asset were worth more than all of America’s manufacturing,...”
– “Again With The Black Confederates”, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic (via howtobeterrell)
Hence the war over “Southern culture”… a.k.a. slavery (and other sundry things)
“Rebellion is a stage in the development of revolution but it is not a...”
– -Grace Lee Boggs (1993)
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“This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.
I ask: what am I...”
– Dag Hammarskjöld (via whiskey river)
“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have...”
– Alain Locke (via warriorsrise)
“Concretely, black women as intellectual producers and consumers do not have open...”
– Hortense Spillers (1995) ‘Review: Wallace and Dent, Black Popular Culture; Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman; and Wallace, Invisibility Blues—From Pop to Theory.’ African American Review 29.1; p. 125. (via james-bliss)
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or...”
– Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via nprfreshair)
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Egypt: Days of Mourning Declared After Football... →
dynamicafrica:
The Egyptian parliament is due to hold an emergency session today in response to the violence that killed at least 74 people in Port Said, following a soccer match between premier league teams, Masry and Ahly on Wednesday.
The Egyptian daily online news service, Ahram Online said that thousands of Masry fans stormed the pitch immediately after the final whistle, chasing Ahly...
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“To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the...”
– Thomas Merton is 97 today. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name...
drinking red wine and coca cola…
i am going to berlin tomorrow. never been before. and will be there for two weeks. so whatever happens in cairo, i will just be one more spectator looking at it from a screen, if at all…
excited to see my friends in berlin and discover new (to me) places to drink, dance, catch good music, and chill…
the shit that went down at the football...
Liquor&Spice: Halp plz? →
liquornspice:
liquornspice:
Hey tumblr fam! I’m ending my blog vacation a day early because I’m kind of in a jam…
Financial aid is being a dick and making me go through an appeals process to (hopefully) get my aid for this quarter. In the meantime, I don’t have enough cash to pay rent and I’m kind of flipping out :(
So…
NEW LINK! Hey guys, this is the link I get when I press the DONATE...
Egypt's tragedy: This is not just soccer violence... →
I say all this because many of the first media reports ended with a variation of the statement “soccer in Egypt has a high potential of violence.” Only it doesn’t. There has been the occasional violent incident, but even championship games normally end without a hiccup, or else with the most hot-headed supporters exchanging insults or, at worst, throwing things at each other....
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– James Baldwin (via creativedreadhead)
“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– - Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live Latina Feminist Testimonios.
(via mujerinterrumpida)
“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer | The point of the long and winding sentence
[And with that, I have an alibi.]
(via lowendtheory)
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on...”
– Quote by Toni Morrison: “In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, la…”
and when you have clarity, there is then room in your life for this. (via milkeemountainmama)
baddominicana:
but yeah im from puerto plata, which is where sosua is, which is the hottest sex tourism spot on the island after maybe boca chica?
sex tourism is something that was always in my environment growing up, basically. there were always women in town who started working that circuit when they first built the docks and ships started coming in w foreigners, which led to hella hotels and...
How to find textbooks online for free: a post.
notzainab:
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your copy as an electronic copy - this is the post for you!
Most textbook companies put out new...
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
– Rumi (via nezua)
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“Do you have any regrets about your career?
No. I don’t have any regrets in...”
– Interview with Ms. Badu in Oyster Mag. (via newmodelminority)
Watchselchieproductions:
Trailer for the film Lost Words
The story of American Indians who must overcome the traumas inflicted by US policies as they fight to save their endangered languages. Lost Words tells the story of Amber, Conrad, Yellow Otter, and S. Neyooxet Greymorning among other American Indians who are engaged in saving endangered languages. Through them we learn of how language is used...