November 2011
33 posts
The world wide web
The internet at its best-
A wealth of human knowledge and the ability to mock the constraints of time and space.
The most common use of the internet-
Invisible trains of thought that never end, just a series of clicks that lead you to nowhere, quickly. Followed by mild stalking, these are just fancy ways of saying a complete waste of time.
I have been in a state of dehydration for the last 5 months
Slavery to the PIC
A little bit of history for y’all. I snagged this from an old paper so excuse the snooze-ville academic tone. However, this knowledge should be blasted from the rooftops.
Angela Davis was one of the first people to contextualize prison abolition with the power dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality; in her book Are Prisons Obsolete? she examines how slavery and...
Queries on Accountability
Community accountability has become the new radical buzz word. I have read many women and trans writers who talk about how communities must stand up to their internal forms of violence and hold perpetrators accountable. Critical Resistance often talks about community responses to harm that do not create harm, but heal. I find this concept to be beautifully revolutionary. Models for how this...
Prisons that Could Not Hold
From Prisons that Could Not Hold by Barbara Deming
“I think: Let the foundation of every jail that exists be tumbled out of place-let these hells be harrowed, let them be emptied. I think of all the men and women cast, for a time, into this damnation, and marked by it. I think of their troublesome return to society. I think of the senseless attempt to build heaven more securely by creating...
Powa
As a form of self care I am only reading radical feminist theory and comic books this month.
This being said, I took this morning to nurse my food hangover and read “Why Misogynists Make Great Informants” by Courtney Desiree Morris. As the title may suggest, she is dropping knowledge bombs left, right, and center- here is one of my favorites-
“What the FBI gets is that when...
Her imitations are incredible
*sigh*
My prompt for my latest community studies paper-
1) define social change
2) describe what is going on in the world (or some part of the world) that creates a need for your group and its work. What do you think is causing the problem?
3) How does your group address this issue. Do you think they are being effective? You can borrow parts of your first paper if that is appropriate. How could...
Reblog if your vagina is magical.
Tumbling
This blog is a love letter to myself.
An overly romantic depiction of the last 5 1/2 months that leaves out the mundane and disorderly.
I hopped from existential break down to a sense of purpose, eventually to find my purpose causing break downs.
With three more weeks I am starting to think about re-entry. Its rather daunting to say the least.
There is only one thing to, just gotta keep...
Clarity - or- Those Radicalizing Moments
I woke up this morning to an insanely long text from a friend describing how he could no longer sleep, how his body felt the need for action but his mind was only now beginning to understand how uninformed he was.
How our history has been a series of well crafted myths.
In the romantic and simplistic words of Cornell West, this is death.
The process of waking. It seems my generation may be...
Therapy
Words as therapy.
Maybe.
My grandpa died a few days ago.
Well, that’s a start.
“My life seems to be an increasing revelation of the intimate face of universal struggle. You begin with your family and the kids on the block, and next you open your eyes to what you call your people, and that leads you into land reform into Black English into Angola leads you back to your own bed where you lie by yourself, wondering if you deserve to be peaceful, or trusted or...
“Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
