March 2012
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Pot is dangerous
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Why our hype can harm: Congo edition →
I used to work with these people.
b-sama:
Simple stories make for very effective advocacy. The problem with simple narratives, arise, however, when they drive simple-headed policy.
Severine Autesserre takes aim at the Enough project and other activists in a thoughtful new paper:
The dominant narratives have oriented international programmes on the ground toward three main goals – regulating...
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February 2012
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A Christian Anarchist's Lenten Reflection on Shame →
Oh Sinnerman
Where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman
Where you gonna run to?
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“I have many times questioned my right to even work on an anthology which is to...”
– Cherríe Moraga, La Güera
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“Peace begins with me. Reconciliation begins with me. Healing begins with me. So...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via nezua)
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“No one is free until everyone is free. White people can never be free as long as...”
– Marc Lamont Hill (via variationalbeings)
Malcolm X once said “It’s victory or death! It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!”
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Today I Sang
For three years, I could not sing
My voice became choked up by
Comings and goings
And lingered in the doorway
of my throat
I smeared on the greasepaint
And played a myth
For three years
I was afraid that I didn’t have a real name
For three years
I was scared that if I took off the paint
The skin underneath wouldn’t
even be white
it wouldn’t even be a skeleton
there...
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I think I might need to move
I’ve talked and dreamed about going back to the Bay Area for so long.
But I’m not sure that I know why; I don’t want to do it for the wrong reasons.
I don’t want to feel like I’m running away from the Northwest because I’ve been forced out.
Though there’s been a lot pushing me away from here for years, and maybe it’s time to give in. And I’m...
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Recovering from intimate violence -- plans for a...
I need to recover from a lot of intimate violence in a recently ended relationship.
I’ve been doing this alone, and I don’t know many resources. Are there books by/for male people of color deconstructing racism, patriarchy, and internalized oppressions in the legacy of Bell Hooks, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldua? Are there books by black and brown men learning how to...
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72 Hours
A phone call ended our friendship
For Two Days, I stumbled around,
a newborn puppy,
fumbling in the dark
And I dreamed of daggers
piercing me
thrown by friends
who saw me as an enemy
And it’s only now,
finally,
alone with Drew on the carpet
in a good Samaritan’s house
72 hours later
that you finally break up with me
I wrote a plan for liberation
and I would normally call...
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WatchSWAAAAAAAAAAG
A Film About Audre Lorde in Berlin
guerrillamamamedicine:
AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS/ TRAILER (by AV)
yes. the importance of berlin to audre. berlin added years to her life. so want to see this in berlin. <3
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Tumblr Has a Cutting (and an Anorexia & Bulimia)... →
This is terrible, for multiple reasons:
It is horrible that our society drives people to this level of self-hate. Many of these people, mostly women, are very aware of the fact that what they are doing is dangerous and self-destructive.
I think that tumblr’s policy of deleting blogs “glorifying” these oppressions is misguided— even though these blogs are often a way to...
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Koutsoupi: In Athens, an anarchist tradition alive... →
koutsoupi:
Singled out for blame in the wake of riots that broke out in Athens on February 12, Greek anarchists are eager to show that they “are not mere hooligans”. France24.com takes an exclusive look at the movement on the ground.
By Gaëlle LE ROUX (text)
Nikólaos, a 36-year-old Greek…
AAAGH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
What the fuck do you do
when a girl you had a huge crush on in middle school/high school
suddenly resurfaces in your life
and is REALLY FUCKING HOT
(as in she writes slam poetry and is a guerrilla-status anarchist person of color and probably has the most beautiful hair in the world)
and lives in a different city, 10 hours away by car
it’s been like, what, 6 years since I’ve seen...
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WatchThe Battle of Oakland
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INCOME INEQUALITY IS BAD FOR SOCIETY. REALLY BAD. →
SMASH INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
jonathan-cunningham:
chasingsunsetsandjustice:
“Societies with more income inequality have higher infant death rates than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have higher rates of mental illness than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher incidence of drug use than other societies:
Societies with more income...
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