February 2012
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Racism 101: White Privilege: Sight Unseen →
racismschool:
The biggest problem (I believe) with White Privilege is that white people are born with it so they never have to acknowledge it as a “Thing.” There was never a day when they didn’t have it. They never had to live without it and then wake up one day to see a package of white privilege in the mail.
An excellent post. I definitely recommend reading the entire thing.
Ally: The Basics
For my family and friends who may read this and not know what an ally is, it means a person who is not a part of a minority community, whether racial, sexual orientation, queer, transgender, and so forth, but is an ally in achieving the human rights that that community deserves. (If I have that definition wrong, please let me know.)
racismschool:
Only make a mistake once-I don’t mean you only...
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“A lot of parents will do anything for their children, except let them be...”
– Banksy (via stellablu)
This has been on my blog before. And it will be again. (via kiriamaya)
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Plunge Magazine: Queer. Women. Genre. by ailelie —... →
“Plunge Magazine will publish quality short stories, poems, and articles about queer women in a variety of genres from space operas to mysteries, wild west to fairy tales, superheroes to the end of the world.
This Kickstarter campaign is to fund the first year of this ezine (2013). Year One will include two issues, publishing in February and August. Starting in Year Two the ezine will...
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Mission Impossible:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
by Edward Montgomery
Impossible Nostalgia, or
What was it that was written above the gates of Hell? “Surrender hope, all ye who enter here,” or some variation thereof?
Anyway, I just thought I’d toss a warning your way—your eyeballs will bleed, and it’ll be a while before we…
A fantastic essay on what heroism means.
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that...”
– Winston Churchill (via whatshipsarefor)
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“There is no singular, universal woman’s narrative. There are as many stories and...”
– Natalie Reed, Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization (via kiriamaya)
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write-handed:
Poetry is more than shiny words or phrases, more than line breaks, rhymes, or s p a c e s. It breathes and sings and hangs from strings tied neatly to our secret places.
Well said, write-handed, well said.
Reblog if you want your followers to ask you...
Racism 101: Cleopatra →
racismschool:
What I learned in school about Cleopatra:
Lived in Egypt. She was black-This one was interesting. I was in class when my teacher pulled down the map to point to Egypt. Truly…it never occurred to me that Egypt was in Africa. Why would it? Elizabeth Taylor was clearly not an African woman, right? I must have known but…I clearly never thought about it because I said, out loud “Egypt...
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It's Black History Month
And the thought that immediately comes to my mind is that I don’t know enough about Black history — which is really just History (American history and World history) that’s been marginalized (like Hispanic history, Asian history, etc.) — other than the obvious few that made it into high school history classes.
I realize that I don’t read enough books by Black...
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love poem #3, James Schiller
kathleenjoy:
1 i will put a bee under your bed 2 every day for a year 3 so you do not perceive the increase 4 of bees under your bed 5 and become unconsciously accustomed to their activity 6 which at its culmination a. (364 bees) 7 will be substantial 8 you will lay down over a large, undulating field 9 of meticulous noise a. their dark purr will comfort you b. you will require their...
Komen cuts grants for Planned Parenthood cancer...
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jessicavalenti:
I’m sure that most folks know by now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity and advocacy organization, announced that they were cutting funding to Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings. In the last five years, the money from Komen allowed PP to providealmost 170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals.
As I said in...
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Zombie Poetry →
I am pleased to announced that my poem, “Comfort At Last,” is up at Z-composition. So please go read, and read the many other great poems there as well.
If you enjoy it, please also retweet. Edit: Er, that’s reblog. *sigh*
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January 2012
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“I try to conjure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to...”
– Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale (via blogut)
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“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse,...”
– Virginia Woolf (via hateshiploveship)
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Hook
Everything has rhythm. The slap of the too blue sea against the hull. The clink of the rigging, the straining groan of the lines. The rumpling of the sails, straining to catch the wind. The gruff huffing of his men being men. All keeping time with the tick tock of the alligator’s tail, flicking at the water below.
On days like this, when the sun is warm on his shoulder and the sea sparkles,...
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“It is quite a haunting feeling to write beautifully and profoundly about my own...”
– Lorenz Dumuk (discovering one’s own truth)
WE NOW NEED 200,000 SIGNATURES. ACTA GOES INTO... →
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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work,...”
– Mary Oliver (via carsinmycoffee)
