February 2012
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Just tweeted it; might as well post it.
I’m thinking about this XXL controversy and wondering how possible it is to critique the sexual objectification of black women without, at the same time, sliding into a conservative discourse about sex and sexuality, and especially without relying on the most conservative anxieties about black girls’ and women’s sexuality. We play into that, of course, whenever we reaffirm the...
“Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from...”
– Anthology Call for Submissions • Survivors in Solidarity with Prison Abolition
I’ve written a little bit previously that I hope provides a few strategies for being in solidarity as a survivor, so I’m really glad this is happening on a larger and more intentional scale. Please pass on.
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shana—e replied to your post: Before someone asks me about this Cornel West-Melissa Harris-Perry Beef
(raining on my hate parade)
Oh no, the hate parade toward Cornel is welcome and long overdue. I just want to make sure we have enough floats in reserve to send in the direction of the political economy of representation that made a Cornel, and now an MH-P, possible. I often agree...
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Before someone asks me about this Cornel...
Two thoughts, in the slenderest form I can muster.
First: I can only pray that someday, the stakes of public beefs between card-carrying members of the Negroscenti will have less to do with the struggle of who gets to land the television contracts, speaking gigs, etc., in which she or he can position her or himself expertly as The Highly Celebrated Explainer of Black People to Audiences Primarily...
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another tumblr recommendation
y’all are reading a space for black rage, right?
i love the riskiness of the “black life in traces” series, which—as do all images that claim to make something about blackness visible—flirts with reification in order to represent something non-reified about that spookily freighted term, black life. it’s dwelling on somethings about black life that exists, or remains, in...
January 2012
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rakalak replied to your photo: Tumblr Crushes: minou karaj miswritten …
where have you been!?
Well, what’s been keeping me away of late has been a set of classic ingredients in a crust of general busy-ness: academic job applications, a dash of traveling (to Palm Springs and San Diego for the best friend’s 30th which included a healthy balance of work and play with what has to...
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“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer | The point of the long and winding sentence
[And with that, I have an alibi.]
December 2011
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for the record, i began tripping precisely at the moment when mick jagger showed up and started dropping hashtag lines that somehow, miraculously, managed to exceed, in inanity as in incoherence, lines from will.i.am that included the prepubescent “this beat is the shit…#feces” and the proto-juvenile “i woke up in the morning/hard like morning wood in the morning,”...
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harunwasagoon replied to your video: so when i was talking about the importance of…
this is very funny when viewed drunk.
wecanbenew replied to your video: so when i was talking about the importance of…
he gon call jesus. ay.
wecanbenew replied to your video: so when i was talking about the importance of…
aka jlo
wecanbenew replied to your video: so when i was talking about the...
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harunwasagoon:
lowendtheory a ajouté votre billet à ses coups de cœur : Libidinal Economy is
LOWENDTHEORY YOU BRIEFLY APPEARED IN YOUR TUMBLR FORM IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT. Apparently I was looking for you so I posted on tumblr “I am looking for lowendtheory” and 2 minutes later there were 3000 notes on the post.
Don’t ask.
yes, i did just become the person who starts...
midwestmountainmama:
i am *that* person now. great.
welcome to the club! we have t-shirts!
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So I just realized that I made this post a year ago today. Which is kinda, well. A lot has happened in this past year. In some ways it contains the seeds of most of the stuff I’ve been trying to use this space to talk about over the past year—unacknowledged class/racial/gender dynamics that inhabit political formations that are, on the surface, anti-oppression; the importance of building...
bronze-by-gold:
champagnecandy answered your question: So basically the difference between a professional troll and an admirable contrarian is prose style and social standing?
no. Hitchens was a professional troll. and a great writer. one can be both.
Having a nice prose style is not enough to make a great writer, though it’s popular—and safer—to think so. Joanna Russ, whose death earlier this...
bye followers →
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Christopher Hitchens was an Islamophobic ass who learned expertly to use his white privilege and British accent to shimmy his way into literary prominence and journalistic notoriety without really trying much at all. Wishing death, as I do, on no one, I feel it important nevertheless to disclose that I am failing to experience even the slightest pang of sadness in the wake of the news of his...
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Listen
i still make beats sometimes.
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“#HATERS GONNA MAKE SOME PRETTY GOOD POINTS ACTUALLY”
– novazembla
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“feel like theres a real correlation between millennials raised in an overly...”
– Today in Real Talk With Joe Schoech (via celebraterickysargulesh)
I doubt I’ll read anything better today.
An Open Response from Tracy Oliver & Issa Rae →
Filed under: eloquent not so eloquent ways of using words in order to say nothing at all whilst patting oneself on the back. This might as well have been written by the Human Relations department at a corporate law firm.
But we didn’t make the mistake of thinking that this was a show about social justice just because it widens the scope of representation so that certain college-educated...
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My tumblr drafts box just hit the century mark.
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“It doesn’t need an all of the above option! Those are checkboxes, not radio...”
– in which the awesome quixotess outnerds me.
lol remember tumblarity?
“I often talk about love as one of the few places where people actually admit...”
– Lauren Berlant (from “No One is Sovereign in Love: A Conversation Between Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt”)
November 2011
34 posts
Anonymous asked: have you seen the highendpraxis tumblr? it's better than urs.
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Anonymous asked: What's your DJ mixtape process?
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blackamazon a réagi à votre lien : Big Boi Raves About Kate Bush’s ‘50 Words for Snow’ | Rapper hopes to collaborate with the artist on his next album
I am dreaming of a 2011 “running up that hill” sir luscious left-foot mix I think I exploded prisms
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Big Boi Raves About Kate Bush's '50 Words for... →
Dear Powers that Be,
This headline made my life. I don’t ask for much, but could you please make this happen? I feel like if this happened a healthy segment of the Bay Area queer community would explode with joy. and I sorta need to see that?
Anonymous asked: Ask and answer a question you wish people would ask you more often.
Anonymous asked: gets you open. i like that. - a difft anon
Anonymous asked: have you ever gotten aroused sexually while reading any sort of academic text?
tmi tuesday. yup.
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“It should not be possible to be antiracist without being against oppression. ...”
– Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, pp. 49-50.
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“Racial-liberal reading practices, which conceived reading literature to be...”
– Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, p.24. My emphasis
I’ve been waiting for this book since I first heard about it and am loving it thus far. Can the clicktivist information-sharing...
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I find it rather humorous, really, but I have to wonder, what do I keep doing that gives people the license to assume or charge that I’m white? This is one of the problems with PoC politics, y’all—sometimes if you don’t behave in a certain way, if you don’t deliver the blistering Critique of White People in an absolutely self-validating and self-satisfied manner, if you...
