January 2012
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New York has a city in it, but it’s kind of an island, and it’s cold.
December 2011
4 posts
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The chemistry of the commons,
a burden weighed in gold coins.
St. Peter, the most crass
of all apostles, died inverted.
The cross a symbol of hope
in death and blood.
The reaction was laughter,
bronzed helmets and steel
swords, the soldiers themselves
found divinity in nothingness.
http://fckvrso.wordpress.com/ →
A trove of philosophy and some radical literature in the form of pdfs! A buddy of mine sent this!
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There’s always a bell that tolls around this time.
A priest in prayer, the cross of the son smells the organ.
Between guerrillas and priests, one finds the jungles
to be divine.
My own insecurity feels like wheat.
A parakeet the color of Caribbean green,
a thunderstorm the hue of your eyes.
It happens to feel like winter only at night,
when I think of you most and feeling what
it...
November 2011
10 posts
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A throne of beads, colored in seeds.
A proud spirit, swords sweeping therein.
Rotting in regalia, fingers crossing to
be a child again.
Fables burning in furnaces, angles too proud
for His curses.
Weeping, twisting, rebuilding,
a veil whose darkness rejoices.
“He oído, la itinerancia en los campos de ferviente.”
A belief with two functions, the
suffering and his death,...
Waiting For Alia →
“But it is surprising that an adult woman’s decision to take a nude picture of herself and publish it on her blog has created more controversy across the political spectrum than the fact that Egyptian soldiers were administering “virginity tests” with their fingers on and in female protestors.”
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youngbrownincompetence:
do some blogs just make you want to throw up because there are too many pastel coloured things and images of effy stonem and dumb jewelry and beige white girls and never, ever a person of colour but always, always a white person appropriating another culture?
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You leaned over on your side and
jokingly said,
“Okay, now! Can we just sleep
and cuddle now?”
As if we’ve been lovers for some time
and not only for the night.
Sometimes the fickleness
grows like blurred lights.
I think back to the last moments
of my grandfather’s life, white as
Hamlet’s father, seeking solace,
yet as drunk as any old fool.
I have...
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A Memory of
Some thieves
are nearer the blood.
Staved back between
three witches, borrowing
of night what muses
borrow from their poets.
My own mother,
herself a witch doctor
unrealized, thrust hexes
unto her children. Small
shavings of coca, small
fingers against our toes.
Animals, a personified
cat in her gaze. The air
sweet, satsumas in
the courtyard.
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October 2011
17 posts
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Maybe it was
because I was
sober, and maybe
it was because
you were drunk.
The cold was biting.
“In a way, this is nothing new. Revolutionary coalitions have always tended to...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
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A Young Republican vs the Human Face of the Great... →
A student raised his hand and asked if he could comment. He looked to our arch-conservative friend and explained that his father was a construction worker who owned a nice home. They were not rich, but he and his dad were solidly middle class. This all came undone with the crash of the housing market, an illness, and the utter collapse of the economy in the town where they lived. After the savings...
“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She...”
– African feminist Ifi Amadiume
(via newwavefeminism)
“I wish these tragically hip youths would buck up and realize that they’re gonna...”
– some fucking shithead columnist on cnn, the daily beast, new york times, huffington post, msnbc, wherever (via dingraha)
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“But none of that really tells us very much about whether or not the United...”
– Matt Yglesias, Times Change (via ilyagerner)
Interesting…
We all know that moving in this direction will elicit the screams of “socialism” from the usual predictable corners. The tired rhetoric lives on long after the cold war that orchestrated it fades out of memory. The audience for that...
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“This leads us to another understanding of how the public sphere and public space...”
– Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil - Michael Hanchard
whiskeyleaks:
Kai Wright: Here’s to Occupying Wall Street! (If Only That Were Actually Happening) [excerpt] jhameia:
From Colorlines
wecanbenew:
“We could also use a movement against police brutality. I’d love to see a national movement ally, for instance, with organizers in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Brownsville to help the hundreds of young black men who get harassed daily...
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“I think part of it also is that communities of color do things every day that...”
– http://readnfight.tumblr.com/
Better articulation from my previous post.
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Inside Occupy Wall Street: A Tour of Activist... →
Also, Who Dat.
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“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is...”
– Coretta Scott King (via zeitgeistmovement)
rather relevant I think.
(via appropriatedisorder)
just reblogging again.
(via loveyourchaos)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
September 2011
15 posts
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Neo-Liberalism is incompatible with jazz, obvi.
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“Modernity can and will no longer borrow the criteria by which it takes its...”
– __Habermas (1987) The Philosophical Discourses of Modernity
I’m also currently reading Zizik and this reminds me of what he mentions about the struggle against capitalism. That it will be rootless, as if in a boat in water. An interesting thing Zizik mentions about globalization: “I...
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“Ortiz, who along with many others among these migrant workers sends about $100...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
go Steal His Job, all those complaining about migrants. go Steal His Job and then once you taste it for a week; run, run, run far away. and never open your mouth about mexicans again.
(via nezua)
I used to work for the Department of Labor granting H2B visa...
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“So what are the things that we look for? What are the features of African...”
– African-American English: From The Hood to the Amen Corner Geneva Smitherman (via howtobenoladarling)
and this is a good example as to why dominicans need to stop being ashamed of our spanish too. our spanish has roots as deep as we do. we do not speak white spanish because we’re pretty fucking...
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Y con pechos tan lindos,
porque quiro dejarte?
Cuando padres se pierdan,
unos pajaros negros lamentan
con un amor fiel, un rubio
como la alba Atlantica.
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Watchlotus-eyes:
emissions
A song from Hugo Santiago’s Invasion (1969). Lyrics by Jorge Luis Borges and Anibal Troilo. Guitar: Ubaldo De Lio.
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“Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I...”
– STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life…
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August 2011
11 posts
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“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and...”
– Rumi (via slychedelic)
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