February 2012
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bell hooks - Feminism Is For Everybody (free... →
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Art Talk with Kara Walker →
“What it means is always having to navigate the limits contained in these titles. Even to escape their impact, an artist must pass through this channel. Expectations on the performance of race and gender are simultaneously high and low, depending on who is looking or asking. I prefer to keep all the options in the air, to try and better understand the conundrum that inequality...
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Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed...
– dream hampton (via thechanelmuse)
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Undress. Take off your clothes. Take off your body. Hang them up behind the...
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via helplesslyamazed)
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Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
People have been trying to kill me since I was born, a man tells his son, trying to explain the wisdom of learning a second tongue. It's the same old story from the previous century about my father and me. The same old story from yesterday morning about me and my son. It's called "Survival Strategies and the Melancholy of Racial Assimilation." It's called "Psychological Paradigms of Displaced...
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And the heart, unscrolled,
is comforted by such small things:
a cup of green...
– Jane Hirschfield, from “Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape” (via proustitute)
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January 2012
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years →
blacklooks:
Cannot wait for this -
Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz’s Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada,…
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Giving a Face to Black Queer Identity →
“….through the austerity of the black and white photograph, Muholi depicts her subjects as sublime overturning negative stereotypes of queer identity and embracing the identity of the dyke by making these subjects her muses. In doing so, she celebrates her subjects and so infuses them with an innate strength. They become moving in not only in their plight but also in their...
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