January 2012
8 posts
“Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively...”
– Audre Lorde, “Lessons from the 60s” (via wordsandsteel)
mere-khwabon-mein:
Asha Bhosle - In Aankhon Ki...
December 2011
31 posts
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make...”
– James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk. (via thenegrosophisticate)
we do, we do, we do <3
(via muxersita)
I LOVE this book!
(via sisteroutsider)
re/write:: on spelling yr women's with y's (womyn) →
miswritten:
or, a-qwoc-checkin-that-turned-into-twitter-vomit-that-turned-into-a-tumblr-post.
written for all the women of color i love and hold dear to my heart. written for myself too. and in hopes that thing can change. in hopes of being heard. from love and with anger.
—
“radical” men who spell women as “womyn” but are as misogynistic as fuck… you can change your spelling all you want,...
wecanbenew:
smart people (i.e. feminists- in my view, there is only one kind, the right kind) are sexy. just saying.
agreed.
“On the one hand, contemporary color barriers are certainly less visible as a...”
– from Derrick Bell’s Faces At the Bottom of the Well.
One of the most brilliant thinkers of our time. Reading his work this afternoon makes his recent passing all the more disheartening.
“The imperialist myth of liberation and rehabilitation presents both violence and...”
– Lisa Yoneyama
one of my favorites/always relevant/worth reposting.
(via miswritten)
• • • low end theory: So I just realized that I... →
lowendtheory:
So I just realized that I made this post a year ago today. Which is kinda, well. A lot has happened in this past year. In some ways it contains the seeds of most of the stuff I’ve been trying to use this space to talk about over the past year—unacknowledged class/racial/gender dynamics that inhabit political formations that are, on the surface, anti-oppression; the...
Words and Steel: on being "triggered": a PSA →
wecanbenew:
wordsandsteel:
So… not to call anyone out here, but please, if you’re going to say someone’s writing is “triggering” (aka my prior post on Asian American activism) do know that it means a lot more than simply being annoyed or offended by, or to disagree with the point made in, that said piece of writing. Having worked for many years at feminist and queer non-profits and ...
Words and Steel: Reclaiming "Asian American" ... →
wordsandsteel:
I know I don’t really repost much on Tumblr, and rarely if ever bother to write something of my own, but I’ve been marinating on a few thoughts partly in response to (but long brewing beforehand) a recent API students town hall held on campus a few days ago. This in no way is meant to denigrate…
this!!
“The groups I find most interesting, however, are those that consider...”
– from “Angela Davis: Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA,” an interview with Lisa Lowe.
This quote kept coming to me today during an API open forum on campus.
November 2011
17 posts
“It should not be possible to be antiracist without being against oppression. Yet...”
– Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, pp. 49-50. (via lowendtheory)
really looking forward to reading this soon.
“The most well-funded organizations in the gay and lesbian movement do not...”
– -Dean Spade: Compliance is Gendered (via delisubthefemmecub)
Preach.
(via sisteroutsider)
C.L.R. Jamz - Alimentary Tracks 11-20-11 →
lowendtheory:
Here we go again. This one goes out to wordsandsteel, who crankily insisted that I re-record this after I fucked up and accidentally deleted a first version of this mix. Other than the staple 80s stuff, there is, um, a certain political theme that sets the key which I sorta feels barely need mention after this week. Enjoy.
C.L.R. Jamz - Alimentary Tracks 11-20-11
Dead Prez -...
“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see...”
– Cherríe Moraga (via modernmalaise)
listening to nina simone = self-care.
