theorizin’ on the cheap since ‘09. for more about me, go here. e-mail: lowendtheory [at sign] lowendtheory [dot] org.Tumblr (3.0; @lowendtheory)http://www.lowendtheory.org/<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwu9aYoty1qzzw8ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mama lowendtheory and white friend, Wichita, KS, 1971.</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/18197415040http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/18197415040Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:34:00 -0800feminist role models<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzt6jgnyYr1qzzw8ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Probably the most quirky (but still lovely) passage from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PAC_r_0nXFsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=object+lessons+wiegman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sjxFT9SBPK72sQLn_OnCDw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=object%20lessons%20wiegman&f=false" target="_blank">this book</a>, which I can report, having spent the last three weeks reading it cover to cover, is in equal shares honest, smart, and fucking cranky.</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/18080913946http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/18080913946Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:09:00 -0800I’m thinking about this XXL controversy and wondering how possible it is to critique the...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17736896590http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17736896590Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:18:00 -0800“Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from frustration and hope:...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17563939373http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17563939373Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:24:00 -0800 shana—e replied to your post: Before someone asks me about this Cornel West-Melissa...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17345137491http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17345137491Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:42:00 -0800shana--ehaterationTwo thoughts, in the slenderest form I can muster. First: I can only pray that someday, the stakes...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17343164085http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17343164085Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:00 -0800cornel westmelissa harris-perry<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3tybKnoW1qzzw8ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOY w/yr reading material.  Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/dr_edwards" target="_blank">@dr_edwards</a>!</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17298547421http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/17298547421Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:00 -0800y’all are reading a space for black rage, right? i love the riskiness of the “black life...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16836812337http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16836812337Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:04:00 -0800aspaceforblackragerakalak replied to your photo: Tumblr Crushes: minou karaj miswritten … where have you...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16796908653http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16796908653Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:32:00 -0800rakalaklive from writer's blockhateration<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymx51WCR31qzzw8ho1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Tumblr Crushes:</strong></p> <ul><li><a href="http://minou.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">minou</a></li> <li><a href="http://karaj.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">karaj</a></li> <li><a href="http://miswritten.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">miswritten</a></li> <li><a href="http://shana--e.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">shana—e</a></li> <li><a href="http://abbyjean.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">abbyjean</a></li> <li><a href="http://youlikemealready.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">youlikemealready</a></li> <li><a href="http://milkeemountainmama.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">milkeemountainmama</a></li> <li><a href="http://suzy-x.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">suzy-x</a></li> <li><a href="http://beatsthatarefunky.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">beatsthatarefunky</a></li> </ul><p>The awesomeness of this list does not surprise me.</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16784719271http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/16784719271Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:58 -0800minoukarajmiswrittenshana--eabbyjeanyoulikemealreadymilkeemountainmamasuzy-xbeatsthatarefunky<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxlgbeiCuV1qzzw8ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>For some reason I thought it would be nice to come out here for my morning bike ride.* Wtf. The bay area is making me super woo woo.</p> <p>*Believe me, I know.</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15624932120http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15624932120Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:52:00 -0800i hate people who post this kinda stuff.<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxkepnkOJA1qzzw8ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>[the only worthwhile sentences from the draft i just deleted.]</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15605014737http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15605014737Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:20:00 -0800sorry gentle readerno contextlive from writer's block“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so many-chambered and...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15529059662http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15529059662Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:39:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx34o6o5li1qzzw8ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>How are they not going to have this in my size?</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15095471473http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15095471473Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:24:06 -0800consumer injusticefor the record, i began tripping precisely at the moment when mick jagger showed up and started...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15070337358http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15070337358Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:22:00 -0800 harunwasagoon replied to your video: so when i was talking about the importance of… this is...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15070049381http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15070049381Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:16:33 -0800t.h.r.e.e.(the hardest replies ever. ever.)<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vjIwmJMqrco?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>so when i was talking about the importance of moving away from political pessimism, i’m wondering why no one just sent me this video?  because this kinda just obliterated any foundation my sense of political possibility rested upon.</p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15068601126http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/15068601126Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:45:46 -0800i go hard............................STATUES?!???!?!harunwasagoon: lowendtheory a ajouté votre billet à ses coups de cœur : Libidinal Economy...http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14953391099http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14953391099Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:25:00 -0800je ne demanderai pas au sujet de celaomgharunwasagoonmidwestmountainmama: i am *that* person now. great. welcome to the club!  we have t-shirts!http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14725507568http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14725507568Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:26:57 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwoovsaKAL1qzzw8ho1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=48492&viewby=title" target="_blank">The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries</a></em></p> <p>In <em>The Problem with Work</em><span>, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or inevitable activity. Weeks argues that in taking work as a given, we have “depoliticized” it, or removed it from the realm of political critique. Employment is now largely privatized, and work-based activism in the United States has atrophied. We have accepted waged work as the primary mechanism for income distribution, as an ethical obligation, and as a means of defining ourselves and others as social and political subjects. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative rather than relentlessly bound to the employment relation. Work, she contends, is a legitimate, even crucial, subject for political theory.</span></p>http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14697571584http://www.lowendtheory.org/post/14697571584Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:16:00 -0800books to read