July 2011
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I know better than to take it personally, but I gotta say: I’m a little weirded out at the fact that I’m now beginning to be accused of ableism and of playing the more-authentic-activist-than-thou game, and of shitting on online activism, and of saying that all forms of oppression can be reduced to capitalism.
And so I reread what I wrote and I kinda sorta see how it can be read...
whoa: i made that last post then went to sleep and only came back now. did i create a monster?
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“Žižek summons the waiter and orders hot chocolate, Diet Coke and lots of sugar...”
– A life in writing: Slavoj Žižek • Guardian UK
one should really not lol at that but i did.
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shana-elmsford said: DUDE. This is great - the last 2 paragraphs are BRILLIANT.
Thanks! This was probably the most blatant displacement onto tumblr of my need to be writing the dissy mcdiss in a while, so I’m glad something okay came out of it.
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“When [Tribe] broke up in ‘98, I said, ‘Someone needs to do a...”
– Michael Rapaport, on “Beats, Rhymes, and Life,” his A Tribe Called Quest documentary
Cuz, you know, when Leo, authority on all things hip-hop, gives you the go-ahead, it’s not even a question anymore.
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“Such material as [Michele] Wallace’s Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman...”
– Terry Jones, “The Need to Go Beyond Stereotypes.” Black Scholar (May-June 1979), pp. 48-49.
It’s true! Black feminism will shackle your population for centuries!!
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“I have a persistent fantasy of yet another way to be critical, while avoiding...”
– Lisa Duggan, Scholars and Sense, 1992 (via lazz)
“There is one other thing I want to say about general theories of race and...”
– Class Matters: An Interview with Adolph Reed, Jr.
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“This is not to say that blacks no longer are oppressed, nor that that oppression...”
– Adolph L. Reed, Jr., “Black Particularity Reconsidered,” 1979. My emphasis.
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Since all of you (i.e. none of you) have asked: here’s a live mix: free download, twenty-one tracks from three decades in forty-eight minutes. For all y’all at home who’d rather be out dancing, or out listening to something dancy. A couple rough transitions (getting used to the recording equipment), but I guarantee: fun times will ensue, or your money back.
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