January 2012
8 posts
“Black people can’t talk to white people about race anymore. There’s really...”
– Steve Locke - “Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race” (via kararikue
)
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find...”
– Frederick Douglass (via cultureofresistance)
Yes.
(via suchasensualdestroyer)
3 tags
“The significance is Imperialism, Colonialism, and Genocide. This image depicts...”
– Svnoyi on Cultural Appropriation of Native American Cultures and Items
“The less you think about your oppression, the...
– Assata Shakur
“Black English is the creation of the black diaspora. Blacks came to the United...”
– James Baldwin - If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (via chocol8luv
)
“This is to warn you that I am no longer held in check from fighting white...”
– Malcolm X’s telegram to George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party who attempted to forge friendships with the black separatist movement (1965)
“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is...”
– -bell hooks (via cuntflavor
)
December 2011
24 posts
“‘If you know I have a history, you will respect me.*”…Those who assume that...”
– -William Loren Katz, Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
*a young Black Indian student told [this to] a conference of New York teachers [40] years ago
(via adailyriot)
“To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting, Europeans played...”
– William Loren Katz, Black Indian: A Hidden Heritage (via adailyriot
)
“No matter what its eventual fate, America will have gotten off very, very cheap....”
– Ward Churchill, Some People Push Back (via cuntymint
)
“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– bell hooks (via asopo)
“The mainstream media is ripe with oversexualized images of women of color, and...”
– Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via Racialicious
)
1 tag
“Colonization is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and...”
– Frantz Fanon
“When race politics are the issue, it is one of the rare moments when white men...”
– bell hooks | killing rage: ending racism (via ramou
)
“The marriage debate highlights the need for black women to tell our own stories;...”
– !This. (via newmodelminority
)
“There is most certainly a privilege to having a gender. Just ask someone who...”
– Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw (via foldedpaperstories
)
“Because although you may hear white people claim that people of color make...”
– Resist Racism: Because (via jhameia)
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via amantesuntamentes)
“When you removed the gag that was keeping these black mouths shut, what were you...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus (via allxsouledxout
)
“Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change...”
– Noam Chomsky (via endormirse
)
“The less you think about your oppression, the...
– Assata Shakur
“My fellow queers and assorted allies: we have got to stop using arguments like...”
– Social Justice League - Fauxgress Watch: Born This Way. (via anotherlgbttumblr)
“Being told you are a worthless piece of shit and not believing it is a form of...”
– Kathleen Hanna (via chasingfallenstars
)
“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via fuckthisdamnplace)
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
Yes.
(via utopiaisbanished)
“[F]ar from undermining the current system of control, the new cast system...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via thecurvature)
“Being an activist requires you to fight for more than those you love; you have...”
– Staceyann Chin (via newwavefeminism
)
“As self-identified mixed-heritage people, to empower ourselves we must refuse to...”
– Maria P.P. Root, Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity (1997)
“Privilege means i have the option to make you non-existent when I’m...”
– (via freedomoverfear
)
“Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual...”
– Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via bodkins
)
“If we want to wipe out torture, and not merely limit it or force it into...”
– Kristian Williams, “American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination” (via combat—wombat)
November 2011
34 posts
“See, here’s the thing that I love about people of color and white women: we’re...”
– Queer Black Feminist - Solidarity, White (Male) Privilege and Occupation
ALWAYS happens. But people wanna act brand new each and every time this shit happens
(via newwavefeminism)
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via thoughtsdetained
)
“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it...”
– Abbie Hoffman (via capitalist-chan)
“When we are dealing with the police as an institutional structure, we are not...”
– David Graeber, PhD
Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
(via Deep Green Resistance)
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks, “Killing Rage” (via bhavitavyata
)
“Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society...”
– Occupy and the Swing of that Truncheon Thing (via azspot
)
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love...”
– Tigress Osborn (via boybitch)
“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and...”
– -Malcolm X (via black-culture
)
“The fascism of capitalism is not the same type we have witnessed under Nazi...”
– atomicsocialist (via thenonviolentcommunist
)
“Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kdhume
)
“I say that intentionally.
I am not a lesbian. Not bi. Not straight. Not pan....”
– Femmes and Family: I am Queer Intentionally (via spiritd3sire)
This is awesome, and really brings me closer to identifying with queer. Something I’ve felt restricted from.
(via puteveryonetosleep)
“The Police might be blue-collar or part of the “99%,” but they enforce the laws...”
– Occupational Hazards: On the hidden dangers of police, politicians and other perils presented to the Occupy movement « autonomousappalachia
A good article. Here’s another good section:
“Dogmatic Nonviolence
Tunisia and Egypt are commonly cited as one of the main inspirations for the Occupy...
“The first aspect [of revolutionary solidarity] is that of seeing solidarity as...”
– Revolutionary Solidarity (via combat—wombat
)
“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– “What’s Wrong with First World Problems”
This times a million, plus the fact that everyone talking about “first world problems” is bragging about them.
(via katherinestasaph)
“The earth is not dying—it is being killed. And the people who are killing it...”
– Utah Phillips
We need to stop them.
(via cuntymint)
“Our rulers seem to labor under a lingering fear that if any significant number...”
– David Graeber (via iambinarymind
)
“Being able to choose if, when and how you will be arrested is the definition of...”
– (quoted from an Oakland Occupier). (via skinlikeautumnleaves
)