December 2011
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“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus,...”
– -Peter Gelderloos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via rosadefuego)
Very good point- while I’m honestly too terrified and easily upset to even civilly disobey at this point (I’m working on it), and really don’t plan on ever using violent tactics, I have the privilege to...
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“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person -...”
– Dinah Craik (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Some activists are interested in Community Accountability processes primarily as...”
– Connie Burke, Think. Re-think: Accountable Communities. From The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities (2011), ed. by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
*APPLAUSE*
*MORE APPLAUSE*
(via quixotess)
I really need to read...
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“To say that a category such as race of gender is socially constructed is not to...”
– Kimberlé Crenshaw - Mapping the Margins (via ahnuhkuh)
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I beg you, stop using the bankrupt and meaningless... →
darkjez:
No Such Place as ‘Post-Racial’ America—
Dear America,
Please, I beg you, stop using the bankrupt and meaningless term “post-racial!” There’s no such thing as “post-racial.” There’s no place that fits the description “post-racial America.” There’s no “post-racial era.” It’s a term for a concept that does not exist. There’s no there there.
We are not a nation devoid of racial...
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“I doubt many people seriously believe that the programmers behind Siri are out...”
– Amanda Marcotte, on Siri (via greaterthanlapsed)
Perfectly said.
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thesavagesalad:
“By now we are all too familiar with the preoccupation with the unmarried Black woman in the media. The question that keeps getting raised is: “Why can’t a Black woman understand, find and keep a man?” Fundamentally I don’t have a problem with conversations about love and relationships. I have them all the time. What’s unfair about this question, and the conversation that follows,...
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“If [Spivak’s] critique…has not been widely taken up by U.S. historians and...”
– Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
Yes, I see the irony in me, of all people, posting this quote.
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“If anyone passes even the slightest glazed eye, wise or otherwise, it’s rather...”
– Voicing The Voiceless Is Only The Concern Of The Artist In The Ivory Tower « Oi With The Poodles Already (via guerrillamamamedicine)
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