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...