May 2012
20 posts
“I don’t mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.”
– Evo Morales (via myleahjuliette)
aka BELOVED’s children (via howtobeterrell)
Esoterica: And on that note... →
bankuei:
I get so done with people talking about hiphop is “stealing” anything as a genre. As a genre, hiphop has been about reclaimingthe music. Y’all racists ALWAYS show yourselves because we can always just compare how you respond when a white person does it vs. a black person - because if…
Esoterica: rude boy →
youmustfaceyourmortality:
karnythia:
ihavethisblog:
merrydeth16:
Rhianna ruined the term rude boy. no offense to Rhianna, i think she’s actually pretty good, but the whole rude boy thing kinda bugs me. Rude boy is a term for fans of ska. now i cant google rude boy without…
Ska is not a “white, watered down version of reggae” or “a mix of punk and...
guerrilla mama medicine: i want to say this, about... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
i want to say this, about this photo, that i really disagree with this sentiment. tahrir is a square. in a specific geographical place. in downtown cairo. before the revolution, midan tahrir (liberation square), was the primary square one went through to get from a good amount of cairo to downtown…
Milkee Mountain Mama: i'm back →
marshmallowmegamama:
hey all—i’m back in safe and sound.
so tired. my lungs still hurt from today’s industrial corridor trip.
i’m fluctuating between being so sad i can hardly keep my eyes open, and inspired…
fighting so fucking hard cuz we know we deserve more…little village activists shut down one coal plant, the…
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Radical Black Reading: Summer 2012
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We hope this summer 2012 edition of Radical Black Reading can offer some respite from the hurly burly of an increasingly anti-Black World. High up on our list of summer reads is a classic from CLR James, one of The Public Archive’s spiritual mentors. A History of Pan-African Revolt, James’ pioneering account of global Black resistance against colonialism and racism, returns to print...
Misandric heterophobic race traitor.: A list of... →
stfuconfederates:
Kōbō Abe
Maria Acosta
Linda D. Addison
Saladin Ahmed
Sherman Alexie
K. S. Augustin
Malcolm Azania
L.A. Banks
Steven Barnes
Derrick Bell
Aliette De Bodard
Tempest K. Bradford
Maurice Broaddus
Joseph Bruchac
Octavia E. Butler
Raphael Carter
Blackamazon is too much: zuky: Crooked Purple... →
zuky:
Crooked Purple Rain!: Jamaican Supremacist hits on what REALLY bugs me
jamaican-supremacist:
blackamazon:
That MCA , Beastie Boys ,
WERE SUPER INFLUENTIAL to hip-hop
for good, ill , and indifferent
Like ” FIght for Your Right?” . That was the prototype for about a…
susie-c:
A rough cut of an interview with UC...
Cruel Youth: You know, it's just really funny how... →
cruelyouth:
I’m making a guess here that HONY is a white person, or at least white-identifying.
They have to be.
Because they saw the Sudanese woman being harassed. They saw the effects of it — she teared up and said she wanted her story shared.
They also saw the creepy white Jewish guy run off, and they…
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white...”
– Stokely Carmichael (via iwasabearonce)
Esoterica: Time is Up. Shit got Real. →
dank-potion:
ancestryinprogress:
My mom went up to my brother’s school and called all of those ignorant, neglectful, disrespectful teachers racists and read them like a Psalms verse on Easter Sunday.
Because it’s the 15th time she’s had to call a meeting with the Principal to complain…
“‘The participation of people of color does not change the fact that this...”
– CROATOAN, “Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-Optation.”
This post is both a really thoughtful challenge to this widely-circulated statement, and a lot more than that. Don’t agree with everything, but I think it’s a must-read.
(via lowendtheory)
April 2012
21 posts
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“N***** is a great word. It just packs so much punch. The two g’s next to each...”
– Lesley Arfin.
THE WORST thing about this whole thing is that she thinks she’s making some kind of social statement. She’s actually delusional enough to think she’s some kind of punk-writer. She thinks she’s fucking Lenny Bruce. She’s not anywhere smart or self-aware enough to realize she’s just a...
My Blu Tinted Glasses: I've sent like 4-5 messages... →
matthewdgold:
Trigger Warning. rape, violence, racism.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Dear Tumblr:
How many rape threats do I have to receive before you do your jobs? 10? 20? 50? 100?
As a victim of rape, your lack of any attention to this matter is appalling and fucking ridiculous.
…
“Sarcasm doesn’t always come across in writing, and it certainly didn’t in this...”
– New Times editor Eric Barton posted this apology for Rick Delgado’s article, entitled “Eight Pleasantly Plump Female Musicians We’d Like to Get Down With” (which is archived in part here). While we appreciate the excision of Delgado’s terrible article from the Broward/Palm Beach New Times website,...
Esoterica: New Neighbors Hold Black Man, Family at... →
cupcakesnotbombs:
searchingforknowledge:
emphysemainacan:
THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE TRYING TO BREAK INTO NEWLY PURCHASED HOME
(NEWSER) – The Kalonji family got a nasty surprise when it tried to change the locks on its newly-purchased Georgia home last week: Their new neighbors…
Esoterica: This is what just landed in my inbox →
searchingforknowledge:
Dear MoveOn member,
On December 23, 2011, my goddaughter, Jasmine Thar, a 16-year-old African American, was shot and killed while in my mother’s front yard in Chadbourn, North Carolina.
When the shot rang out, Jasmine was preparing for a routine shopping trip and…
marththebland:
I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger
Esoterica: About Iceland and it's democracy.. →
ceepolk:
dreams-from-my-father:
anoncentral:
No news from Iceland… why? How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:
…
In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been…
“Oftentimes when we have failed at solidarity work we retreat, struggling to...”
– —M. Jacqui Alexander (via theredtree)
Esoterica: ARUGH. i'm just SO FRUSTRATED right... →
marshmallowmegamama:
white folks:
DON’T BE POLITE. DON’T BE A GOOD PERSON. DON’T DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM WHITE SUPREMACY.
learn that shit. immerse yourself in it. You are not a better person because you don’t visit white supremacist sites or you distance yourself from “racist” states (the:…
3 killed, 2 injured in Oklahoma shootings -... →
thecurvature:
Three people were killed and two were injured Friday in four shootings in north Tulsa, Oklahoma and police are searching for a lone suspected gunman, they said.
Tulsa police spokesman Capt. Jonathan Brooks said investigators were looking into whether the shootings may have been possible hate crimes.
“We’re not absolutely certain, but a hate crime is a possibility. And we’ll go with...
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, coldly it lies, too; and this lie...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via nezua)
Sociology Books →
sociolab:
All of the books are in MOBI or AZW format for Kindle. If you want to convert the files to PDF or ePub I recommend Calibre or online-converter. If you have any problems with downloads or formatting please let me know and I will fix it asap.
Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling [X]
The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild [X]
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich [X]
Feminism...
'Africa’s first transgender music star’ →
b-sama:
African governments don’t want us thinking that “homosexuality” is within the realm of their “traditional values”. So these leaders, even Nobel Peace Prize winning ones, use that as an excuse to justify the persecution and lack of protection for some of their most vulnerable citizens. Well, it seems that the Angolan government who currently seem to have their hands full (of money?)...
More on the homeless woman who was kicked out of...
deliciouskaek:
abaldwin360:
She had been raising her children alone when a tornado destroyed her home, she lost her job, her utilities were shut off, her children were taken, her house was condemned and she was left homeless.
Blackamazon is too much: How Los Angeles Covered... →
sara-laughs:
The greatest unsolved murders in Los Angeles’ history — bloodier than the Black Dahlia, more coldly vicious than the hit on Bugsy Siegel — occurred on a cool fall night in 1871. Seventeen Chinese men and boys, including a popular doctor, were hanged by an angry mob…
Blackamazon is too much: More blind, mindless... →
alexandraerin:
kottavio:
I just got a text from my boyfriend that the Black Panthers are calling for random acts of violence against whites across the country.This is entirely second-hand and I can’t substantiate this claim at all. I’m not finding anything other than articles on the…
March 2012
35 posts
Blackamazon is too much: kyssthis16: Update: 11... →
kyssthis16:
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
everythingbutharleyquinn:
liz-the-wiz:
thatfeministdyke:
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized…
All I do is Party: Woman Dies After Being Dragged... →
rubyshimmer:
BTW THE ENTIRE INCIDENT IS ON VIDEO!
Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested because she refused…
In a state of hype(r)panik.: Dear Jessica Valenti, →
lebanesepoppyseed:
Your white is showing.
No, it is. Really bad.
I just sent you a message about this but I don’t know if you’ll publish and respond to it, so I’m going to reiterate the points I made to you here and add a bit more.
The problem with your tweet is that it makes a really poor association that…
Esoterica: When you report Sophie M. Herold... →
alexandraerin:
…for her activities on Tumblr or any other blogging site, some magic words to use are that’s she’s illegally sharing “personally identifiable private information”. Not that she’s posting hate. But “personally identifiable private information”. Most sites have something about…
Esoterica: Rekia Boyd, Black Woman Shot By... →
pearlfectchassi:
Source: Ben Bradley / ABC7Chicago.com
CHICAGO - A woman shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer on Wednesday morning died Thursday. Family members say she was an innocent bystander and are calling for an investigation into her death.
“How could this be justified?…
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Unionized sex workers in madrid are on strike,... →
the translated bit that jumped out at me: “forget about my p*ssy until you fulfill your responsibility to society.”
things brand new people should know about poc...
deluxvivens:
this post about indigenous activist criticisms of occupy that came out in october;
the decolonize oakland website;
the occupy wall street poc commitee;
in front and center: critical voices of the 99%;
brown power at occupy wall street about poc activists working to change the language of the original ows declaration.
tequila sovereign with some background about occupy oakland’s...