January 2012
11 posts
“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, — in prison...”
– — legal scholar Michelle Alexander.
On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander talks about how the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the War on Drugs has undermined many of the gains of the Civil Rights movement. (via nprfreshair)
“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted...”
– Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
Because let's be honest here,
todiedreaming:
stfuconfederates:
You’re not caring about somebody’s health when you care about their weight, and you’re not honestly saying I want you to lose weight and be healthy.
You’re saying, I want you to lose weight and be better accepted into our fat-shaming society.
Big difference there, folks.
This.
absolutely. i teach nutrition and cooking to elementary school students, and i...
December 2011
21 posts
“How should there be Black poets in America?
It was not natural. And she was the...”
– June Jordan, “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley” February, 1985 (via negrosunshine)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Native Hawaiian Recognition Suffers Latest Setback →
adailyriot:
WASHINGTON – Native Hawaiians who want to be federally recognized as sovereign entities, much like American Indian tribal citizens, have suffered another setback from a U.S. Congress that just doesn’t seem to want to reconcile the unique history of the indigenous population of the island state.
Despite all their attention to payroll tax cuts and pipeline provisions, U.S. House...
it ain’t right no, & it never was what he says...
November 2011
10 posts
[on veteran's day] morning pages.
brownroundboi:
i think about my father who was a white poor red headed and later blonde-headed michigan rural person who never got passed the 6th grade. i think about how he was racist and loving. terrible and passionate. i think about the glorious lady slipper photography in his black room and his knees almost wrapped in wild blueberries and toad hopping bogs. i think about how he served his...
October 2011
8 posts
Native Appropriations: Representing the Native... →
adailyriot:
I have yet to feel connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement, or even the Occupy Boston movement happening here in my backyard. I consider myself an activist, an at-times radical, and I clearly feel passionately about advocating for voices unheard and on the margins. But, Occupy Wall Street hasn’t appealed to me. There has been a lot of coverage as to why people of color,...
it's cool to love your sisters
me, updating my status on facebook: bean and the emotional adventures of coming out to your parents while menstruating
alyson: doing it while you're at your most powerful. makes sense.
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