January 2012
31 posts
bklyn boihood: What Does it Mean to be an Ally to... →
bklynboihood:
We use the term “ally” for someone who is truly supportive of the survivor. Often people in the survivor’s life are trying to be helpful, but are doing so in ways that don’t feel helpful or supportive to the survivor. Examples: encouraging the survivor to “leave it in the past,” trying to “cheer…
“It really does matter how we feel.”
– Melissa Lacewell-Perry, speaking at UC Santa Barbara
Send Lex and Julia some gas money to get to... →
mobilehomecoming:
Lex and Julia are travelling to Baltimore to participate in a Queer People’s Movement Assembly and to conduct a 3 hour skillsbuilding workshop about documenting and amplifying LGBTQ Brilliance! Send us some gas money! :)
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I love Noemi! Praise the Lorde for inspiring sisters and everyday grace! :)
Thanks for the shout out Elizabeth Anderson and... →
mobilehomecoming:
We love how you love the mobile homecoming project!!!!
“I’m gonna fight Thurmond from the mountain to the sea.”
– -Modjeska Monteith Simkins, South Carolina 1948
(quoted in Nikky Finney’s Head Off and Split)
DEDICATED TO THE BADASSES FIGHTING THE FAMILY DISCRIMINATION AMENDMENT AT ALL OF US NC! (allofusnc.tumblr.com)
“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab)
tobia:
Nina Simone Sinnerman 1965
So I run to...
“The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible.”
– Toni Cade Bambara (via noldarling)
Latino Sexuality: Original Sin →
latinosexuality:
Before Mexicana flight #729 en route to Mexico City departs from San Antonio International Airport I buy a 69₵ disposable razor at the gift shop because I forgot in Mexico they don’t like hair under your arms only on your legs and plan to shave before landing but the stewardess handing out…
Revolutionary Young Adult Books/Youth!
This is compiled by my friend and comrade Lynne Walters
Want to donate one of these books to the Indigo After School Program shelf in the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Library? Email me at brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com.
When the Whale Came to My Town, by Jim Young His Own Where, by June Jordan (reissued recently by The Feminist Press) June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A...
listening to "Focused" →
Dedicated to my ancestors for meeting me before dawn and keeping me focused and blessed! Love resounds!!!!
December 2011
96 posts
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Food and intergenerational relationships. Check it out!
“There is nothing concrete to grasp in
looking into the morning sky
The...”
– Ed Roberson, “Here” (via proustitute)
“we arrived spectacular, tendering
our own bodies into dreamery
as meat, as...”
– Dionne Brand, Inventory
Ujamaa. Is there a form of economic participation where we are not for sale? Check out the Real Reading Rainbow Kwanzaa edition here: http://vimeo.com/34218165
(via mobilehomecoming)
Ethnic Studies library list!
tierracita:
After getting a couple asks for the list, I thought I would just publish it here more directly.
It’s unfortunately alphabetized by author, but until I get that fixed, here you go.
Over 800 books (some are duplicates) by POC and about POC/POC issues/politics and I just ordered more on friday:)
“May we always resist what we know in our hearts to be wrong. May we do right and...”
– Nikky Finney’s introduction to her Carolina epic RICE
Ujima. Collective work and responsibility. Let’s all work to nourish each other with love! <3
(via mobilehomecoming)
“Black women and men who recognize that the development of their particular...”
– Audre Lorde, Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving (via funkchunk)
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Me & my bois…spotlighting masculine center people of color on the west coast.
“Hate is not fuel. Hate is the leak that stops you from touching people’s...”
– Marvin K. White Our Name Be Witness
Kujichagulia. Self Determination.
See my video on Black Queer Poets challenging and clarifying the principles of Kwanzaa: http://vimeo.com/34218165
See my review on Engenderings (London School of Economics Online Journal) on this brilliant book: ...
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Real Reading Rainbow: Queer Black Intergenerational BookLUST Kwanzaa edition!
“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male...”
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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)
mmmhhmmmm. for the “but how will we knooowwww not to be racist, entitled douchefucks if you dont hold our hands and teach us” crew. fuck off.
(via soydulcedeleche)
Queer Black Feminist Brilliance All Year Long!!! →
Honored to be part of this highlights post from @ElixHer InspirHered by along with my sister comrades Yvonne Fly, Kim Crosby and @adriennemaree
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Happy Queer Kwanzaa family!!!!
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Umoja!!!! Living Room Love. The mobile homecoming project is committed to bringing together Black LGBTQ community across generations! Happy Queer Kwanzaa everyone!!!! <3
“It is not enough to mention names
to know location of past iniquities
of...”
– -from “because this whole earth is ours” by Letta Neely
Umoja challenge. My relevant measure of when we will have achieved Black and LGBTQ unity is when Black transwomen and Black genderqueer people are safe, free and cherished everywhere from bathroom to bus stop all times of day and night.
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