February 2012
16 posts
“ there will not be a revolution without love poems.”
– Sonia Sanchez (via lover-root)
Watchdefendneworleans:
Last FEMA trailer leaves New Orleans
Super Black! The Politics of Comics and Pop... →
hafrocentric:
Check this radio show out. The marriage of race, class and gender in comics. And more to the point, how do superheroes act as projections of fantasies, desires, and beliefs? What is the idea behind ideas?
There is no superhero in (H)afrocentric but I think we are still onto something great. Can’t wait for folks to check out Vol. 2!!
Class War in The Philippines
sorrowfulsciences:
Demolishing houses have never been an alien practice in a society that has pledged its commitment to modernity and globalization. Using Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan as exemplary cases, before these countries reached the progress that they currently enjoy, a number of houses and establishment—bound by the architectural principles of the communities, ethnicity, and cultural...
“Hardt: Another thing that interests me is how love designates a transformative,...”
– Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt, “No One is Sovereign in Love”
“…there are nearly three whites with doctoral degrees for every one behind bars,...”
– -Michael Hames-García, “Which America is Ours?: Martí’s ‘Truth’ and the Foundations of ‘American Literature’” (2003)
so, this is my professor and he is great.
(via muxersita)
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Vulnerability: The Human and the Humanities -... →
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THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST CONFERENCE 2012
Barnard Center for Research on Women
This spring’s conference will explore the concept of vulnerability as a fundamental and universal characteristic of the human condition. Scholars and activists alike have explored the way in which an understanding of these common vulnerabilities has the potential to transform our kinship structures,...
musings on a name i never asked for, was never...
Tagle. What a weird last name. Hardly common in the US, I’ve never met another Tagle before. Not shared by too many Filipinos in the motherland, eiher (guess there weren’t as many conquistadors with that last name, or from the Santandar province in Spain?). Also the name of a little-known Chilean president. The Tagles were an aristocratic line in Spain, and even though I’m pretty...
