October 2010
47 posts
jeanthesecond-deactivated201201 asked: oy, trolling for reading inspiration here, so what 5 ( or 10 or 3) books do you think I should get into? Any kind- fiction, nonfiction whatever, whatever.
September 2010
51 posts
derica replied to your photo: New desk! Saved up a long time for this one.
wowzer this is an excellent colour combo. where’s the desk from?
Thank you! The desk is the blu dot strut, which my amazing girlfriend found brand new off craigslist at more than half off the list price.
curate replied to your photo: New desk! Saved up a long time for this one.
fabulous fabric color on that chair. eames? red is a good desk color.
Thanks! It’s an eames knockoff from Target, which they sell in pistachio. The official color of the desk is watermelon, which makes me like the green-red combo even more.
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curate:
Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy
A Major Conference March 10-12, 2011 University of California, Riverside
Plenary Speakers:
Jacqui Alexander·Keith Camacho·Cathy Cohen·Glen Coulthard·Angela Davis·Gina Dent·Vicente Diaz Roderick Ferguson·Ruth Wilson Gilmore·Gayatri Gopinath·Avery Gordon·Herman Gray·Judith...
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“…I wanted to point out what is problematic about black women stopping at the gender question. Because the refusal of certain gender privileges to black women historically was part of the problem. At the same time, that you have to sort of see that and get beyond it and get to something else, because you are trying to go through gender to get to something wider. And I think...
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"He has pledged to save $1 million a year in Santa... →
OK PLEASE STOP CALLING THE DESTRUCTION OF PEOPLES’ LIVELIHOOD “SAVING”
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o. baby. why don’t you ask me things?
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reverendmoss:
Industry Rule #4080: Restaurant people are shadeeeeeee. #lowendtheory
A Tribe Called Quest - Butter
Oh wow. I’m reading Sally E. Hadden’s Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, which is about the formation of patrol units to police, discipline, and regulate fugitive or fleeing slaves in these states. Already within the first couple of pages there is already a wealth of important information. Just some tidbits:
“Some have seen patrols as merely...
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“I saw a paragraph, a few years since, in a South Carolina paper, which, speaking of the barbarity of the Turks, it said: “The Turks are the most barbarous people in the world—they treat the Greeks more like brutes than human beings.” And in the same paper was an advertisement, which said: “Eight well built Virginia and Maryland Negro fellows and four wenches will...
transartorialism asked: ah are you going to the affective tendencies conference? i'm going! and so is mewmewfoucault!
DADT
queeras-s-fuck:
Equality = the right to murder nonwhite people
curate:
AMY GOODMAN: And if you’re teaching young economists, the principles you would teach them, what they’d be?
MANFRED MAX-NEEF: The principles, you know, of an economics which should be are based in five postulates and one fundamental value principle. One, the economy is to serve the people and not the people to serve the economy. Two, development is about people and not about...
“The question whether an Obama-era Democratic Party may offer opportunities for labor and left-of-center political interests presumes that Obama’s Democratic Party offers potential for significant departure from the rightward tacking we’ve seen since Bill Clinton’s presidency. There is little in anything Obama’s said or done to warrant such a presumption. Throughout his career, Obama has...
Redhead hipster dude with fixed gear bike on the BART reading a book called “The Truth of Žižek,” you don’t know it, but you’re welcoming me home. Thanks.
You’re getting off at 16th st in the Mission! Color me surprised!!
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“La propriété c’est le vol!”
– Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Qu’est-ce Que la Propriété? (1840)
So, I’m about to head back to New York for a week. About to get dusty in the Ford Foundation archives. Excited. Hope I’ll find some stuff worth sharing.
“I want to leave my Tori Amos collection to lowendtheory.”
– ceteris paribus: Dating Everyone: Friday Night Dinner
“Fuck getting money for real, get freedom..”
– Black Thought (via humblemumbles)
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confession
I’m getting my jeans dry cleaned.
“[David] Walker refused to believe that public deliberation always proceeded as...”
– Eddie S. Glaude, Exodus! Race, Religion, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
[And for those unfamiliar with David Walker’s Appeal…]
…there are precious few women friends who won’t judge or chastise you (a black woman) for not being strong. Or, who won’t attempt to encourage you (a black woman) by reminding you that as a black woman, YOU ARE STRONG. And while I have my moments of fortitude, there are far more moments of pain.
There is a problem when we (little black girls) are taught to be strong from an early age and...
faith-ampersand-begorrah-deacti asked: Your advisors have given you the caveat that it's OKAY if there aren't relevant and appealing positions advertised this year, right? Right??
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Okay, so, um, my two main advisors just informed me that they think that I should plan to finish my dissertation this year and, more importantly, go on the job/postdoc market this fall.
lol wut.