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Now this is a love story worth hearing...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:20:40 -0400

Now this is a love story worth hearing...:

Roger Ebert and Chaz Hammelsmmith Ebert have such a beautiful love.

R.I.P. Roger Ebert.

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:07:43 -0500

"The median age of an Academy Awards voter is 62. They are 94% Caucasian and 77% male."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:25:48 -0500

“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)

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:25:17 -0500

sabokitty: I regularly send this video out, because it makes...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:32:06 -0500

sabokitty:

I regularly send this video out, because it makes some constantly forgotten points. Allow me to express what I get from it.

The phrase People of Color has been used so profusely in some circles that it has lost all of its meaning and bite. It is not a demographic phrase. We cannot talk about people of color in prisons or public housing, communities of color targeted by stop and frisk, and you are not a person of color. The phrase has come to be used out of fear of saying more appropriately what people mean, like Blacks & Latin@s or Brown people.

And it is fallacy to believe that we need to speak about non-white people in some demographically collective way. Different people experience racism and the system of white supremacy in very different ways, and to box all non-white experiences together (it’s hard enough boxing Blacks or Latinos as an experience) is to create a false sense of uniformity that makes many of those experiences invisible.

People of Color, as Loretta Ross explains, is not something you’re born into. It’s a solidarity term, defined by people who claim the title when they’re in solidarity with each other. I can’t be a person of color, but I am a Latino, and when I am in solidarity with other minoritized and racialized groups, we are people of color.

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi"

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:41:26 -0500

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi”

10knotes: Here’s a blog that’s totally worth following

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:40:41 -0500

10knotes:

Here’s a blog that’s totally worth following

imgfave: See more on imgfave.com

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:39:28 -0500

imgfave:

See more on imgfave.com

divalocity: Taís Araújo for Revista TPM.

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:33:58 -0500

divalocity:

Taís Araújo for Revista TPM.

thiscantbecorrect: dream OTP: joe biden + sunglasses. You...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:33:33 -0500

thiscantbecorrect:

dream OTP: joe biden + sunglasses.

You guys don’t even understand. Joe Biden is my favorite person on this God-given earth.

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:33:16 -0500

"Honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:31:54 -0500

“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..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:30:38 -0500

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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)

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:28:07 -0500

johnconley: The leader.

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:27:03 -0500

johnconley:

The leader.

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:26:28 -0500

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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:26:12 -0500

snippet of "The search for decolonial love" - interview with Junot Diaz

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:12:19 -0500

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/

One of my favorite songs of all time by Sam Sparro, “Black...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:35:24 -0500

One of my favorite songs of all time by Sam Sparro, “Black and Gold”. This is a cover by Adele. Still very good, but nothing touches the original!

Rice and beans, jerk chicken, homemade red velvet cake, and two...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:40:18 -0500

Rice and beans, jerk chicken, homemade red velvet cake, and two different types of rum punch! #picstitch #thanksgiving