May 2013
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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
– Toni Morrison (via mangoachaar)
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“If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is...”
– Malcolm X
The traps of racism.
Source: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/malconafamhist.html
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
my favorite breakdown of white supremacy.
(via marfmellow)
Still very true today
(via radicalrebellion)
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“The scientists have not only sold themselves to the governments and the...”
– Paul Lafargue, Socialism and the Intellectuals (via foucaultthehaters)
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“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the...”
– Brené Brown (via creatingaquietmind)
sans-nuage:
my revolution will not include my oppressor. my revolution will not please my oppressor.
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“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks | killing rage: Ending Racism (via sinidentidades)
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“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the...”
– Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)
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Why I Was Never a Riot Grrrl | Bitch Media →
“Now I remember why I never felt interested in being part of the riot grrrl scene. The film shows snippets of footage of young white women in that era, saying that the riot grrrl was a scene in which they didn’t have to fight in the mosh pit, or have men sexualize them for being at a show. For me, I was in the mosh pit, getting bruised and punched because as an individual, not as a woman, I...
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“Through the centuries, while their European counterparts in Europe grew up on...”
– Susan Hazen-Hammond, Spider Woman’s Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women’s Power
[This quote is from the FIRST TWO FUCKING PAGES of the introduction.]
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graceebooks:
unfollowing me won’t free you from the chains of capitalism
hahahaha
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“When petty nonviolent criminals and minor drug offenders receive long prison...”
– David Korten (via satanic-capitalist)
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gardensoftherighteous:
I strongly dislike this idea that progression in countries is measured by their imitation of western society.
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“Identifying as a person of color in solidarity with other people of color says...”
– Janani, Assistant Editor, Black Girl Dangerous. Read the whole thing here. (via filnana) “How do we, as politicized people of color, acknowledge the very limits of the term ‘people of color’ and the way it can mask our actual racial situations? For example, why do we keep using the phrase...
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“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within...”
– Audre Lorde (via sistaoutsider)
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