Now this is a love story worth hearing... →
blogs.suntimes.com
Roger Ebert and Chaz Hammelsmmith Ebert have such a beautiful love.
R.I.P. Roger Ebert.
April 2013
1 post
February 2013
16 posts
“The median age of an Academy Awards voter is 62. They are 94% Caucasian and 77% male.”
—“10 things the Oscars won’t say.” Via Market Watch. (via climateadaptation)
Play
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi” —
— Mahatma Gandhi” —
“Honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: His refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.”
—Ayn Rand (via anarchei)
“
Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.
And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade) the only theorist who can make me cry (via fromonesurvivortoanother)
this quote really means a LOT to me.
(via ferociousfemme)
December 2012
2 posts
snippet of "The search for decolonial love" - interview with Junot Diaz
You said that people of color fuel white supremacy as much as white people do; that it is something we are all implicated in. You went on to suggest that only by first recognizing the social and material realities we live in — by naming and examining the effects of white supremacy — can we hope to transform our practices.
Junot: How can you change something if you won’t even acknowledge its existence, or if you downplay its significance? White supremacy is the great silence of our world, and in it is embedded much of what ails us as a planet. The silence around white supremacy is like the silence around Sauron in The Lord of the Rings or the Voldemort name, which must never be uttered in the Harry Potter novels. And yet here’s the rub: If a critique of white supremacy doesn’t first flow through you, doesn’t first implicate you, then you have missed the mark; you have, in fact, almost guaranteed its survival and reproduction. There’s that old saying: The devil’s greatest trick is that he convinced people that he doesn’t exist. Well, white supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that, if it exists at all, it exists always in other people, never in us.
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/the_search_for_decolonial_love/
Play
