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Publication for In-Between-Days
Hi friends!
If you don’t already know, one of my favorite people/friends,Nick Desjardins, is publishing a book!
I’m one of the lucky people who already got to read it (as my blurb in this kickstarter attests–that’s right, I’m a blurb-er now!!), and it’s so fantastic.
Please consider backing this project, or at least giving this page a read and passing it along/sharing. I really think this book should be “out there” in the world. Nick has been writing and sharing his work with people for as long as I’ve known him (that’s even how we met, thanks to tumblr), and he totally deserves compensation, recognition, and the ability to disperse his lovely writing throughout the human population (or at least the U.S. population, for starts) via book and bookstores.
PLUS, the rewards are all super cool.
xo.Make CoPilots happen.xo
Dear friends,
Please consider helping a friend of mine, Tosha, start her amazing non-profit!
“Co-Pilots is an organization dedicated to resuscitating life after trauma through companionship and caring. Starting our work in incarcerated populations, we train service and therapy dogs to help regain viability after incarceration. Our co-pilots are scouted for or rescued, and then trained by inmates inside of jails, who will continue caring for their dogs upon reentry into their communities.”
If you can’t donate it would also be amazing if you could share/reblog
Thanks y’all <3
“In this nation there is, it is true, relatively little force in the public domain
compared to other nations, relatively little intrusive governmental
interference. But we risk instead the life-crushing disenfranchisement of an entirely owned world. Permission must be sought to walk upon the face of the earth. Freedom becomes contractual and therefore obligated; freedom is framed by obligation; and obligation is paired not with duty but with debt.”
Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Leslie Feinberg
in honor of Leslie Feinberg’s birthday, a PDF of Stone Butch Blues is now available for free.
it’s been almost a year, and I’m not done feeling this loss. Feinberg’s last words - “remember me as a revolutionary communist” - still ring in my ears. if you can, read Stone Butch Blues. it’s a hard, emotional read, but it’s worth it.
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How we drift in the twilight of bus stations,
how we shrink in overcoats as we sit,
how we wait for the loudspeaker
to tell us when the bus is leaving,
how we bang on soda machines
for lost silver, how bewildered we are
at the vision of our own faces
in white-lit bathroom mirrors.
How we forget the bus stations of Alabama,
Birmingham to Montgomery,
how the Freedom Riders were abandoned
to the beckoning mob, how afterwards
their faces were tender and lopsided as spoiled fruit,
fingers searching the mouth for lost teeth,
and how the riders, descendants
of Africa and Europe both, kept riding
even as the mob with pleading hands wept fiercely
for the ancient laws of segregation.
How we forget Biloxi, Mississippi, a decade before,
where no witnesses spoke to cameras,
how a brown man in Army uniform
was pulled from the bus by police
when he sneered at the custom of the back seat,
how the magistrate proclaimed a week in jail
and went back to bed with a shot of whiskey,
how the brownskinned soldier could not sleep
as he listened for the prowling of his jailers,
the muttering and cardplaying of the hangmen
they might become.
His name is not in the index;
he did not tell his family for years.
How he told me, and still I forget.
How we doze upright on buses,
how the night overtakes us
in the babble of headphones,
how the singing and clapping
of another generation
fade like distant radio
as we ride, forehead
heavy on the window,
how we sleep, how we sleep.
— martín espada, sleeping on the bus (via arianathepoet)
towards a gentle academic
- be up front and honest about the things you do not know
- acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context
- do not feign mastery where you have none
- respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases
- be generous, not only with others
- but also with yourself
- you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork
- privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy
- nothing is ever neutral or apolitical
- support the progress of other scholars
- collaboration over competition
(via brainsandbodies)
“For blacks, describing needs has been a dismal failure as political activity. It has succeeded only as a literary achievement. The history of our need is certainly moving enough to have been called poetry, oratory, epic entertainment-but it has never been treated by white institutions as the statement of a political priority. (I don’t mean to undervalue the liberating power for blacks of such poetry, oratory, and epic; my concern is the degree to which it has been compartmentalized by the larger culture as something other than political expression.) Some of our greatest politicians have been forced to become ministers or blues singers. Even white descriptions of ‘the blues’ tend to remove the daily hunger and hurt from need and abstract it into a mood. And whoever would legislate against depression? Particularly something as rich, soulful, and sonorously productive as black depression.”
Patricia J. Williams, Alchemy of Race and Rights
Anonymous asked: Serious question: When a pregnant woman has an ultrasound of her baby, which is being determined, sex or gender?
The most “simple” answer would be sex because there’s nothing psychic involved on the fetus’s behalf. But then someone like Judith Butler would argue that sex is already gendered, in that it’s a gendered reading of a body that “projects” sex onto that body (though I don’t think she’d put it like this). Does that make sense?
Ugh man, because I had to pay to go to my previous grad program that was terrible for me, I had no money saved up coming to Atlanta in August, and this program didn’t give me my first paycheck till the end of September. So I got a loan for $1000 from the school to pay for mine and Nick’s expenses the first month and a half, not realizing all of it had to be paid back within 89 days (I thought interest was just added after 89 days). Now there’s a hold on my account and it won’t let me enroll for anything until I pay all that money (plus other stupid fees I owe), which I don’t have.
Just when I thought life was gonna be less stressful, y’all. This seems like a silly thing to make a crowd funding thing for, but… Idk what to do?!
“The destruction of logic by means of its genealogy brings with it as
well the ruin of the psychological categories founded upon this logic.
All psychological categories (the ego, the individual, the person)
derive from the illusion of substantial identity. But this illusion goes
back basically to a superstition that deceives not only common sense
but also philosophers—namely, the belief in language and, more precisely, in the truth of grammatical categories. It was grammar (the
structure of subject and predicate) that inspired Descartes’ certainty
that “I” is the subject of “think,” whereas it is rather the thoughts that
come to “me”: at bottom, faith in grammar simply conveys the will to
be the “cause” of one’s thoughts.The subject, the self, the individual,
are just so many false concepts, since they transform into substances
fictitious unities having at the start only a linguistic reality.“
Michel Haar