February 2012
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Melissa Harris-Perry's book just quoted Audre...
Awesome! :) Sister Citizen is awesome!
I need to start writing instead of being lost in my reading though.
“To be a person of relative power and privilege viewing a person of less power...”
– Harris-Perry, M. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
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findyourspine:
sheownzthesky:
sometimes i feel likemarilynmonroe i’m the only person who doesnt love andrea gibson.
unpopular opinion? maybe.
Oh, me too! There’s something about hir poems, they just remind me too much of… every other slam poem. And if I’m going to be listening to slam poetry, I’d rather it be Buddy Wakefield.
I could not handle that poem we listened to. I just...
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“I most recently noticed the impact that the openness of artists like Nicki Minaj...”
– Sabia McCoy-Torres does a fascinating analysis on Nicki Minaj’s images on New York City’s queer youth of color on the R today. (via racialicious)
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, then...”
– Malcom X (via braceletofnoor)
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NJ Governor Chris Christie on same- sex marriage:... →
“It’s my belief, it’s my core belief,” he said. “And I tell people that. And my friends, whether they be homosexual or not, they know me and they know I’m not bigoted.”
I cannot handle this. How can you even think that excluding a group of people based solely on their sexuality is not bigoted? I can’t…
i just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror in...
brazenbitch:
I am fabulous
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“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we...”
– Audre Lorde (via jujuinlalaland)
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“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy (via solitaryforager
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“You picked the wrong Asian to mess with”
– Yellow Rage
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“Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her...”
– Audre Lorde (via defy-gravity)
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WatchPariah. So fracking excited!
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