December 2009
49 posts
The Best Album Covers Of 2009 - All Songs... →
tobia:
(via systems:lynrei)
When I teach about racism the first thing I say to my students is that racism is...
– from an ‘INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN D.G. KELLEY’ (via thirdstitch) (via seaponies) (via ihatethismess) (via sexismandthecity) (via greatloyalties) (via witchwife)
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I think I need to go see Avatar….
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
– François Truffaut (via leprintemps) (via visible-world)
Nneka’s “Hearbeats”.
And you can download her album for free!
Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to...
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love
i can’t put this down.
(via yesterdayifeltlikegod)
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your...
– Bill Ayers (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
(I think I used this quote in a paper one time. Shit, it’s good)
Reading a Book a Week for One Year
laeticia:
writer inaki escudero recently completed a yearlong challenge of reading one book every week for one year. visit his blog (http://52on52.blogspot.com), where he reviews each of the 52 books and check out his interview with micahel suartees as they discuss why and how he went about accomplishing this impressive feat. (via swissmiss)
The charitable interpretation rests on the invisibility of white suffering. It...
– There Are No Poor White People - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via clingtomymouth)
Look at this intro in the NYT: “For all of the animosity, mistrust and lack of...
– The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: “Those people” can laugh: and they sometimes use knives and forks (via clingtomymouth)
Whites often confuse comfort with safety and state that we don’t feel safe when...
– My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege [via] (via anthropophagous) (via ihatethismess) (via seaponies) (via garconniere) (via medonner) (via tobia) (via dalida)
How to Respect a Muslim Woman Who Wears a Veil
Just so we know
hijablove:
by Sadaf Farooqi via howtodothings.com
“You’ve spotted her on the cover of a sensational novel, telling a hackneyed story of patriarchal cruelty and oppression; you’ve seen her out and about in a Western country, looking like a misfit - a “black sack” apparently devoid of freedom and human rights; you’ve seen her circumambulating the Holy Ka’ba in Makkah, not an...
Where's my Hindu goddess of rebirth
As a reward for graduating from the wretched ol’ U of M, I told myself I could reopen my tumblr account. Here. We. Go.
A couple of early New Years resolutions that hopefully will benefit this blog:
-more picture taking, like all day erry’day
-getting a website for my art, (or being aggressive about turning my tumblr into a quasi- “my work space”
That’s about it,...