November 2010
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October 2010
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Remember back in the day, when I tried to remix...
“For the function of violence in lawmaking is twofold, in the sense that...”
– Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence (via tirado)
“I believe what one has to do as a black American is to take white history, or...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 78, James Baldwin (via curate)
We went to the public hospital but it was private, and we went through the door marked “private” to the nurses’ coffee room, and it was public. We went to the public university but it was private, and we went to the campus barbershop, and it was public. We went into the hospital, into the university, into the library, into the park. We were offered credit for our debt. We were granted...
black history is always before its time.
which is to say, it is right on time.
“How much it gonna cost to buy you out of buying into a reality that originally bought you?”
- Saul Williams, “Penny for a Thought”
Anonymous asked: romania
lazz:
a prominent daily observation i’m making is the response people have when shit gets “too real.” real things automatically deter. detour. they actually gross people out, all the sudden they have no words (likely because they’re afraid of hearing and having their own real be heard), or they speak only about vacuous things. they’ll send a text about what time they had a lunch break but not to...
Listen
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Deleting embarrassing posts is really an art, you know? I feel like I’m only a novice, but folks need to be on the lookout. Game might get stepped up.
listen, you a wonder. you a city of a woman. you got a geography of your own. listen, somebody need a map to understand you. somebody need directions to move around you. listen, woman, you not a noplace anonymous girl; mister with his hands on you he got his hands on some damn body!
[lucille clifton, “what the mirror said.”]
“On October 12 more than 400 high schools throughout France went out on strike with many occupied or blockaded by the students. This was a response of school students to the warning by the Education Minister that the left and the trade unions were trying to “manipulate” them. University students have also vowed to join the movement massively in the next few days.”
Thanks, folks, for all the support. I really appreciate it, and as you know, this kind of work can be pretty isolating. Just wanted to let a couple responses breathe here.
chufffedlittlemuffaletta replied to your post:Okay. I’m going to be honest and earnest for a…
i couldn’t deal with the idea of taking a month off of writing to deal with writing those fucking letters and all the other...
For literature, it is to teach in fact how one can learn without regard to verification, to work in the interest of justice. It is an extremely difficult thing to learn. It is also training in suspending oneself in the text, which is of course in turn training in accessing the Other. Thus is what I mean by training the imagination. We get to this by learning how to attend to the rhetorical signals...
Also, when I say “edit the fuck out of this chapter,” I don’t just mean it figuratively. I started getting annoyed at the fact that Lee Edelman is the only academic that I’ve seen drop the f-bomb in publication. I mean, when you’re reading some of the shit I’m reading, I feel like even though the principled response begins with the one that’s in the gut,...
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Okay. I’m going to be honest and earnest for a moment, which means that this is a post that’s already well on its way to being deleted. I feel totally overwhelmed by everything that needs to get done in the next three weeks or so: I need to write like five research statements, find a mentor for the postdoc that I really really really want and might even have a chance of getting, write...
“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”
- K. Marx
ahnka asked: "finds dollop after dollop of joy in excessively long sentences. "
ha!
ha!
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1. i’m queer. yay.
2. i really like appending words with the prefix paleo-. especially if there’s a way i can also flip it into a “pale” pun: i.e. paleomarxist for unreconstructed white marxists. etc.
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Courses that focus on issues which concretely and materially affect Black women are ideally what Black women’s studies/feminist studies should be about. Courses should examine such topics as the sexual violence we suffer in our own communities; the development of Black feminist economic analysis that will reveal for the first time Black women’s relationship to American capitalism; the situation...
ideleteme replied to your photo: Why you shouldn’t wear a polo shirt with a blazer….
I don’t watch this show, but you are never here enough for me, so I’m using this space to say hiiiiiiii!
Hi!!!! xo.
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“Selon Eric Zemmour, la France n’a pas un problème historique sur l’esclavage...”
– afrosapiens via twitter (via afrosapiens)
sadydoyle replied to your post: still tripping
His first scene is an elaborate martial arts duel! BACK-FLIPPING FACE-KICKING PETE CAMPBELL!
And he really does the Oedipal thing so well.
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still tripping
that Connor from Angel=Pete Campbell.
Faces of America: The True Dichotomy of Eva... →
Yes, Virgina, I do judge articles by their titles.
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“[Gates] rehearses a Rush Limbaughesque stereotype of black poverty: ‘In general a household made up of a 16-year-old mother, a 32-year-old grandmother and a 48-year-old great-grandmother is not a site for hope and optimism.’ He polishes this argument off in fine, Victorian form, raising the spectre of the lazy, sturdy beggar: ‘It’s also true that not everyone in any...
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“I’m going to Europe, not dying. Which I would liveblog.”
– gonegood
Watchshanaelmsford:
Power. This performance was a joy to watch. Kanye’s attention to detail is above reproach. Stark white background. Classically trained dancers. Ye draped in red and adorned in gold. Drama.
I also enjoyed the performance of “Runaway” until Pusha T wandered out like it was still 2002. His days of coke rap might be over but those cornrows are here to stay.
(Unfortunately the...
gonegood replied to your post: This burden of being a role model and a savior for…
jinx, u owe me a coke.
Dammit. I always lose.
“As an adult I admit to finding news of teenage suicide heartbreaking. But I am young enough to remember a time when I confess to finding the phrase ‘teenage suicide’ hilarious, reeking as it did of concern. That is, of the condescending, sentimental and moralistic attitude parents, teachers and adults take to the aggravations and ambiguities of being an adolescent, which you...
This burden of being a role model and a savior for the race, to represent is felt, I should think, particularly punishingly on young black men. Not because they have it harder than women (au contraire mon frere) but because they were held up by institutions like Big Daddy’s Muscle Academy as the sole people able to restore gender normativity to the race, regardless of whether or not you are...