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Okunoshima aka “Rabbit Island”

(via 第191巻　大久野島よりバターラビット - みかん汁)

I want to be this man

"It features a peculiarly African-American twist on Marx’s and Engels’s observations about capitalism’s commodity-fetish effect—the transformation of a marketable object into a magical thing of desire. It is my belief that capitalism’s original commodity fetish was the Africans auctioned here as slaves, whose reduction from subjects to abstracted objects has made them seem larger than life and less than human at the same time.

It is for this reason that the Black body, and subsequently Black culture, has become a hungered-after taboo item and a nightmarish bugbear in the badlands of the American racial imagination. Something to be possessed and something to be erased—an operation that explains not only the ceaseless parade of troublesome Black stereotypes still proferred and preferred by Hollywood (toms, coons, mammies, mulattoes, and bucks, in Donald Bogle’s coinage), but the American music industry’s never-ending quest for a white artist who can competently perform a Black musical impersonation: Paul Whiteman, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Sting, Britney Spears, ’N Sync, Pink, Eminem—all of those contrived and promoted to do away with bodily reminders of the Black origins of American pop pleasure.

It is with this history in mind that African-American performance artist Roger Guenveur Smith once posed the question: Why does everyone love Black music but nobody loves Black people?"

Greg Tate, Everything But the Burden (via wretchedoftheearth)

Greg Tate taught my Afro-Futurism class. it was something

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HOLY FUCKING HELL

i’ve been ranting about this for weeks, this is exactly the thing I needed to see for my thesis

i’m so happy right now

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pearlvelo:

A great video about steel lug production from Rivendell Bicycle Works. I love the tag at the end. Ride Lugged Steel, Ride Rocks and Fire.

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From the long haul, a good section on education in social movements

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Let the whole world know, i just walked home across the “hood” dicking around on my phone unscathed.

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mujeristaxicana:

soychorizo:

shylalane:

Chili renellos

Chili renellos

oh, my favorite,I will always miss the way my abuelita used to make these. I’ve tried to make them, but they don’t come out the same.

PS the other variation of the spelling is

“Chiles rellenos” or “food of the gods”

Been working on the vegan version a few times, the outside is the hardest part

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I just found out that because of Cathy Brennan posting the personal info of a 16yo queer kid online the house which they live in with their SINGLE MOTHER had rocks thrown through some of the windows…

xxqueerxedgexx:

Way to be a radical, Cathy. You got your mob of bigots to cause hardship for a SINGLE MOTHER. Good job looking out for all the women.

Fucking asshole.

Oh, and they’re still receiving threats over the phone and on social media. All for leaving a voicemail saying “you suck”

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"Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist politics, is a worthy comrade in struggle, in no way a threat to feminism, whereas a female who remains wedded to sexist thinking and behavior infiltrating feminist movement is a dangerous threat. Significantly, the most powerful intervention made by consciousness-raising groups was the demand that all females confront their internalized sexism, their allegiance to patriarchal thinking and action, and their commitment to feminist conversion. That intervention is still needed. It remains the necessary step for anyone choosing feminist politics. The enemy within must be transformed before we can confront the enemy outside. The threat, the enemy, is sexist thought and behavior. As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined."

-bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody

just going to emphasize that last sentence again: As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.

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Angeles Azules—Como Te Voy a Olvidar (by chriscamargo1980)

crank up the jamszzz

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blackcatfactory:

We made a Writing to Prisoners FAQ zine. Check it out!

http://zinelibrary.info/writing-prisoners-frequently-asked-questions

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