May 2011
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“The word police normally evokes what is known as the petty police, the truncheon...”
– Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy
May 31st
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May 30th
terms i hate #7356
“status quo”
May 29th
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May 27th
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 24th
(Incomplete but amazing) videos from the Critical Resistance and Brecht Forum event, “The World We Want is the World We Need,” 5/20/11 at Riverside Church with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Vijay Prashad, and Angela Y. Davis: Part 1: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Part 2: Vijay Prashad Part 3: Angela Davis
May 23rd
Plenary Videos from Critical Ethnic Studies and... →
criticalethnicstudies: Thursday Plenary: J. Jack Halberstam, Denise da Silva, Sarita See, Waziyatawin Friday AM Plenary: Andrea Smith, Dean Spade, Cheryl Harris, Glen Coulthard, Ruth Wilson Gilmore.  Friday PM Plenary: Keith Camacho, Gayatri Gopinath, Roderick Ferguson, José Esteban Muñoz, Nadine Naber, Cathy Cohen Saturday AM Plenary: Neferti Tadiar, Vicente Diaz, Nikhil Singh, Lisa Lowe,...
May 22nd
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Pre-Rapture Playlist  (If this is for real, it’ll at least get me out of the dissertation, right?)  The Rapture - Get Myself into It Britney Spears w/Nicki Minaj & Ke$ha - Till The World Ends (Remix) Toni Braxton - You’re Making Me High KRS ONE - Step into a World (Rapture’s Delight) Maxwell - Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)  Biohazard & Onyx - Judgment Night ...
May 21st
“On May 15, 2011, Psychology Today contributor, Satoshi Kanazawa posted an...”
– Women’s Rights Petition: Psychology Today: Stop Publishing Racist & Sexist Articles | Change.org Another petition to sign—please sign if you can! (p.s I’m not usually a fan of petitions, but these past two that I’ve reblogged were very good and important because they were calling for concrete...
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 14th
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rakalak asked: summer... 2002!
(is the date cheating?)
May 13th
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Anonymous asked: gender
May 13th
Leave a word--any word--inside my ask box, and I...
lost-in-norn-iron: guerrillamamamedicine: twitchyknitter: relicts: captainspauldingsmurderride:   Interesting, ask whoring with a twist! Ok, I’m in. DO YOUR WORST!!! Innnnnnteressssssting… yay.  words. words. words.  go here... Feed me prompts, delicious words. i’m ready.
May 13th
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May 12th
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“I was one of many in that army of adjunct lecturers—’flexible’...”
– Frank Wilderson, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
May 8th
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I identify myself as a mild-mannered, spastic space cadet of a…college student who is also, on the side, secretly a masked vigilate [sic] at night, going around solving crime as “The Crimson Avenger.” Grading, y’all.  Grading.
May 4th
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minou: I mean I am as much of a cynic about America and all the attendant “victory” rhetoric as the next guy, if not more so. But can we leave off with this maybe for one night? Think about your urge to be edgy, and then think about the families of dead service men and women, the families of people who died in 9/11, and everyone else who has very good reasons that we (or maybe just I) can’t even...
May 2nd
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“American people…appear to glory in their chains, now more than ever, they appear...”
– James Baldwin, 1970
May 2nd
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