April 2012
36 posts
Whose Recovery?
robertreich:
Luxury retailers are smiling. So are the owners of high-end restaurants, sellers of upscale cars, vacation planners, financial advisors, and personal coaches. For them and their customers and clients the recession is over. The recovery is now full speed.
But the rest of America isn’t enjoying an economic recovery. It’s still sick. Many Americans remain in critical condition.
The...
If what comes around goes around, you're in for a...
March 2012
86 posts
Yvonne Rainer, I think I finally get you.
laaane:
No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator, No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer. No to eccentricity. No to moving or being moved.
It is Not About Race because It Is Never About Race. Race is the past. Black people can vote. One of them is president. Nothing Is About Race anymore. Just ask Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum — and have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick that guy is? — and they’ll tell you that the president “injected” race into the tragedy. It wasn’t there before the president — who is (shhh!) black, you...
chiefcalihontas:
lmao! i just died. such a magical “fuck you”.
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– “Our bodies are occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person “of color,” is to decolonize our bodies; and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their...
“For the entirety of American history—from the first African captured and enslaved to the moment Geraldo Rivera opened his mouth to pimp Martin’s death for ratings—black men have been relentlessly caricatured as menaces to society. We were dangerous, so chattel slavery was necessary, and a nation’s wealth was born. We are still dangerous, so a police state is necessary in black neighborhoods...
i just want to be better. not bitter.
When you consider the fact that 20% of the worlds population consumes 80% of it’s resources you have to realize that number can’t exist without immense privilege, oppression, and exploitation.
If you call that opportunity knocking and free-market fair minded venture growth, then I have a serious problem with your idea of freedom.
Those odds and numbers could never become that depraved without...
clarity breathes peace
iamdeeplyrooted:
I am not in denial. I am only a human being floating in this whirlwind of a disaster aptly labeled “life”. Silly me, I used to think I held some semblance of control. We have no control. So won’t you free fall—I’m falling freely even if that means you won’t catch me. Life will catch the both of us, hopefully.
I’m afraid that I’m ruined. That I’m unlovable. And unsalvageable.
Too much has gone down. I don’t know how to recover.
”I will never say that progress is being made if you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches… there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made, and they haven’t even begun to try to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
-Malcom X
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– We live in a patriarchal society in which only men are allowed sexual freedom, and when they indulge in it, they are praised. Meanwhile, women are shamed for it. It comes from fear. You see, it goes all the way back to the Eve-Apple complex. Women—religiously—are blamed for the Fall of Mankind from...
acting out of the ordinary & refusing to be conscious of it. it is what it is…and almost never what it should be.
I don't want to think about you anymore .
On to the next best thing.
choose happiness.
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freedom lies in separating yourself...from your...
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“I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids. […] You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. And, you know, I think they are right to expect that all of us, as Americans, are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we’re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.” — Barack Obama
“I will not walk in someone else’s shoes until...
“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say...
bahaha... but so true.
“If you’re an Indian woman— warning, I’m about to make a massive generalization— if you’re not wearing at least two items of gold jewelry at a time, then my assumption is you were adopted by white Americans.”
-The Concerns Of Mindy Kaling
The Most Empowered Children of The Future Will Be... →
americawakiewakie:
What has ultimately enabled you to think for yourself in life? Above parenting, many say that both age and experience have allowed them to evolve and move past the restrictive classic conditioning that educational systems impose upon students. This not only derails children from reaching their full potential, but it scars critical thought processing tied to social and...
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”—Frederick...
