January 2012
11 posts
You’d think we would’ve gotten used to it by now since all we ever seem to do is turn breath and blood into memory. But we always want what is not ours, making time for hunger, even after the realization that Oh, shit, we’ve been here before, why are we still shaking? How did we stand still, breathe and bleed for the slaughter we weren’t meant for?
- R. Zamora...
“Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively...”
– Audre Lorde, “Lessons from the 60s”
did i mention i'm rooting for pacquiao
taonglayas:
Pacquiao hasn’t responded to Mayweather’s tweet because he’s too busy doing regular things, like
-not beating the shit out of his love interest and threatening to kill her in front of his children -not threatening to beat his children also -not beating women at a nightclub -not making a racist video using anti-poc caricatures in a fucked-up attempt to denigrate his opponent -not...
curate:
If there was nothing unusual about the...
I honestly think you have things a bit wrong with...
manilaryce:
Consistent? Yes. Consistently right? No. If you’re against weekends, an 8-hour-work-day, child labor laws, the right to strike, the right to organize, health and safety laws, anti-discrimination laws, minimum wage, and any other victory the working class has made in this country since its inception, then by all means vote for Ron Paul. And if you want a preview of what Paul is...
NewAmericanMedia.org: In Post Racial America... →
newwavefeminism:
From the article:
African American girls and young women have become the fastest growing population of incarcerated young people in the country. Efforts to stop mass incarceration focused on black girls are almost nonexistant in government policy, the media, foundations and academia. Recently, the Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California,...
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happiness isn’t a state you acquire by luck. It takes hard work and relentless concentration. You have to rise up and rebel against the nonstop flood of trivial chaos and meaningless events you’re invited to wallow in. You have to overcome the hard-core cultural conditioning that tempts you to assume that suffering is normal and the world is a hostile...
December 2011
18 posts
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Suzan-Lori Parks is a celebrated American playwright who has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. During the time between November 2002 and November 2003, she wrote a new short play every day — a total of 365 plays in 365 days. I think you could be almost as prolific as that in 2012, Capricorn. Whatever your specialty...
77825225672443 asked: q: wrt metis/native people...
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
When you are white-passing, ANYONE who is white-passing (and white passing people can happen in a number of races and my thoughts on them aren’t specific to any race) needs to defer to the darker skinned obviously not-passing people. Even if you can only pass some of the time in some areas? That is a privilege. Parts of white privilege can be conditionally made to those...
“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
truth
(via manilaryce)
YES.
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on being "triggered": a PSA
So… not to call anyone out here, but please, if you’re going to say someone’s writing is “triggering” (aka my prior post on Asian American activism) do know that it means a lot more than simply being annoyed or offended by, or to disagree with the point made in, that said piece of writing. Having worked for many years at feminist and queer non-profits and grassroots...
“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first...”
– dream hampton
(via curate)
“When I speak of queer education, many seem to fear some kind of perverse melding...”
– Radical Faggot, “Radical Desires: Why Education is Queer Work”
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Radical Solidarity (on Asian American...
Thank you to everyone that has read, commented, reblogged, or just passed along without reading my post on Asian American political possibilities. As I continue writing my dissertation (I am paid, kind of, for something after all), I am reminded more and more of the need to always connect the work back to the community— of the obligation I have to share some of the little I’ve learned...
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Reclaiming "Asian American" (some thoughts)
I know I don’t really repost much on Tumblr, and rarely if ever bother to write something of my own, but I’ve been marinating on a few thoughts partly in response to (but long brewing beforehand) a recent API students town hall held on campus a few days ago. This in no way is meant to denigrate the hard work of the student organizers who put it together or to dismiss the real concerns...
November 2011
10 posts
bulatlatmultimedia:
#AmpatuanMassacre: Today is the 2nd anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre that claimed the lives of 57 individuals, 32 are journalists.
bulatlatmultimedia:
Tucay and his brand of journalism http://bulatlat.com/main/?p=54545
Exactly. Because staying neutral or claiming objectivity is as much a political position as stating one outright. Reminder to all us writers/educators working out there…
Department of Asian American Studies Letter to the...
dussdaballah:
November 21, 2011
Dear Chancellor Katehi,
As faculty in the Department of Asian American Studies, a department that emerges from students’ courageous assertions of their rights to free speech and assembly, we are outraged by the unnecessary and excessive use of violence by the police against peaceful student protesters at UC Davis on Friday afternoon, November 18, 2011.
We...
C.L.R. Jamz - Alimentary Tracks 11-20-11 →
lowendtheory:
Here we go again. This one goes out to wordsandsteel, who crankily insisted that I re-record this after I fucked up and accidentally deleted a first version of this mix. Other than the staple 80s stuff, there is, um, a certain political theme that sets the key which I sorta feels barely need mention after this week. Enjoy.
C.L.R. Jamz - Alimentary Tracks 11-20-11
Dead Prez -...
C.L.R. Jamz - Alimentary Tracks 10-27-11 →
lowendtheory:
Another mix for those of you who dug the last one. This one is, generically speaking, all over the place, which means that the song combinations variously prove awesome, or frustrating, or sorta just silly. It starts slow and syrupy and then, a third of the way through, gets real dancy. At some point I was like, did I really just try and mix “Daisy Dukes” into “London Calling”?...
“One of the things that will determine how fully representative the Occupy...”
– Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad, “The Occupy Movement, Lessons for Revolutionaries” (via lowendtheory)
October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
3 posts
Kulinarya Cooking Club: Philippine History Edition →
In honor of of August and September being Philippine National Heroes Day and Ninoy Aquino Day, the lovely folks at the Kulinarya Cooking Club dreamed up a patriotically-themed challenge: to create…
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August 2011
8 posts
1 tag
World-Renowned Chef Karl Wilder Tries Living on... →
strugglingtobeheard:
stfuconservatives:
Still think people on food stamps have it too good? Chef Karl Wilder is trying to feed his family on the budget equivalent of what they would receive on food stamps. He’s been documenting his meals on his blog as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank.
He just finished his two months on a food stamp budget, and he says, “I admit...
Banging head on desk as i type
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Eligibility Requirements: Upper age limit is 30 by July 1st of application year. Knowledge of an Asian language is not necessary. Must hold a BA degree. Asian specialists and persons with significant exposure to Asian culture are not eligible.
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Born This Way, and Reborn That Way: why are we, in... →
maishaparadox:
In the LGB and sometimes T and Q world, there is a rhetoric of identity stasis: I’ve always been this way. I was born gay and I will always be gay. It’s an understandable reaction to the dismissive phrase so often lobbed at us from the normative world: it’s just a phase.
It’s just a phase and its companions you’ll grow out of it and I felt the same way when I was your age are...
