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
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“No matter what its eventual fate, America will have gotten off very, very cheap....”
– Ward Churchill, Some People Push Back (via cuntymint
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“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– Samhita Mukhopadhyay’s Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life (via Racialicious
)
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change...”
– Noam Chomsky (via endormirse
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“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
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“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.
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“[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
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“Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual...”
– Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via bodkins
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