January 2012
7 posts
filling the spaces: Cultural Appreciation Without... →
aknowledgeofloss:
iheartokeeffe:
jaded16india:
Today I was teaching my students ‘A Passage To India’ — where teaching and seething become one intersecting activity — when one of my student’s cracked. He asked me if it was ever possible to have a cultural exchange, where a Bigger,…
“Cultivating an ethic of responsibility within the Indigenous solidarity movement...”
– Decolonizing together:
Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization
(via cultureofresistance)
Things to do with Martina when she gets here:
Watch a movie at the dollar theater (woo hoo!)
- Bake cookies
- Go to Venice!
- Take rocky to the beach again
- Go ‘splorin in downtown long beach (thriftstores n cofffee shops)
- Go eat at the $1.99 restaurant
- Bust a 3-day trip to SF
- Going to two open mics (yeaaahhhhhhhh!)
- Go to dinner with Glenna
- Maybe go to club??????
- Hang out with my big sissy
- Hang out with...
Bayn Writes
Hey folks. So some weeks ago I had this idea to collect things I’ve written (on paper, in notebooks and journals, on the internet) and put them in one place in chronological order. So I created a tumblelog for this purpose and named it “bayn writes”. I post stuff as I come across it in my deliberate searching or unexpected reminiscing. I have several incompletely used notebooks....
December 2011
30 posts
“Even strains of nonviolence that seek to abolish the state aim to do so by...”
– Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State, p. 22 (via so-treu)
“I still think it’s important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of...”
– bell hooks, On Marriage
that’s it exactly, that’s exactly it
(via derica)
come on up to the house: Welcome →
blackamazon:
A fundamental part of the experience of whiteness is that you NO MATTER WHAT , are never treated like “one of them” . That no matter what you do you are not fodder for the machine
You can fail but you’ll be mourned
You can do evil , but you’ll be respected
You can be…
““The African continent was bled of its human resources via all possible routes....”
– Elikia M’bokolo, April 1998, Le Monde diplomatique. (via comingonstrong
)
guerrilla mama medicine: I AM SERIOUS WHEN I SAY →
pussy-strut:
don’t believe you have rights
rights discourse has its origins in philosophically/legally shoring up the ability of white monied people to colonize, enslave, murder, rape indigenous people/women/people of color/poor people
human rights as they were originally conceived…
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth...”
– Kwame Nkrumah (via questknowledge)
Poo with Ma Boo: Do you poo with your boo? CAN you... →
gonnaruinyrshoes:
poowithmaboo:
Do you poo with your boo? CAN you poo with your boo? You may be surprised at how you’ve been inundated since birth with POO STIGMA.
This is what we seek to conquer here at PWMB. Because relationships and pooing are not mutually exclusive. This is your chance to come with us on our bowelistic…
I literally just cried a little. HAPPY TEARS.
Oh man. This is...
Meet the Real Author of the Matrix! →
goandgetyours:
an named Sophia Stewart, Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case. A story that restores faith. More power to Sophia!
This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!!
A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia...
“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via uprightcitizens)
Ahh, this is one of my favourite Audre Lorde quotes. I tried explaining this to another Asian woman in an anti-racism workshop when she said that it’s not productive to just call someone an asshole and walk away....
"The Gay Rights Movement"
sixtyforty:
Or how a riot started by queers, drag queens, transgender people and sex workers became ruthlessly hijacked and monopolized by normatively attractive, affluent, masculine gay men who value assimilation and heteronormativity over universal healthcare - and who viciously spurn those magnificent queens who came before them - and gave it a universally accepted brand name (the GAY rights...
“I interviewed a woman who is terminally ill. ‘So,’ I tried to delicately ask,...”
– Unknown (via rosenplantzandguildenfern)
This is so savage.
(via private-revolution)
“In 1919, De Beers experienced a drop in diamond sales that lasted for two...”
– “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Worst Friend” by Meghan O’Rourke
[For an interesting demonstration of cultural production, please see the DeBeer’s Website for their version of the history of the engagement ring.]
(via newwavefeminism)
As always, fuck the diamond industry.
(via rebelrebelbatcat)
November 2011
15 posts
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work...”
– Wendell Barry, “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms,” 1982, from Standing by Words: Essays (Saw this quote in my Tumblr feed this morning, broken up into verse, and titled “The Real Work.” The quote, like most quotes, is much, much richer in context.)
come on up to the house: change comes from... →
djripley:
The biggest problem for people who DO care about the occupations (which I do) is that as Naomi Wolf breathlessly recycles a single source (which is by the way a super rightwing hack site with zero credibility), her article reframes #ows and the occupations as an exceptional…
“femmes with a bottom identification can renegotiate the dynamics of...”
– laura harris & liz crocker (via machoslut)
come on up to the house: An Open Letter (and... →
peopleofcolor:
Dear so-called 99%
You suckers thought that you were so special, ennit? You thought that your heineys were just that much better and softer and more supple than all those poor people of color, huh? There was never any discussion of the “99%” for the past 400 years…
“Oh cool, you’re white? I’ve lived in a white people country. I’ve been there....”
– calloutqueen (via homotronic)
I’m really smart
(via calloutqueen)
spat water on my desk
(via cocothinkshefancy)
See how ridiculous this sounds? Thank you to everyone who hasn’t said shit like this to me when they find out I’m Filipino (and nobody really asks me that “what I am” question I...
come on up to the house: gr. →
so-treu:
i’m so frustrated with occupy ___ right now.
maybe i’m being shortsighted or unsympathetic. but guys, what’s next? do y’all keep playing this game of set up shop, police close it down, set up shop again, police close it down, and so on? and i’m supposed to go into crisis mode every time? i’m…
SistahMamaQueen's L-I-F-E: If You Are An Ally,... →
nuestrahermana:
An Open Letter To Buck Angel:
The fact that you are in a position of power because you are so well known and regardless of whether you like it or not, you have media attention and people look to you as an important voice for the queer community. I am stating this because…
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– Baldwin always.
(via naashar)
filling the spaces: How do we talk about bodies... →
hairyqueerkid:
knitmeapony:
lizardwalk:
hairyqueerkid:
Something i’ve been pondering lately. Saying ‘people with vaginas’ or ‘people with penises’ is definitely an improvement over female/male bodied, but i still see it as cissexist. Talking like that conforms to cissexist…