The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/there-is-no-migrant-crisis/
Author Archives: aidarends
Bookstore and DIY Readings Breathe New Life into the Triangle’s Literary Community – INDY Week
“It’s not an activity mediated by an algorithm or with any economical motives,” Paradiso co-founder Marta Nuñez says. “I think those spaces are very needed right now. People are very isolated.” — Read on indyweek.com/culture/page/bookstore-and-diy-readings-triangle/
A New Theory Of The Entourage (Part I) – by Harmony Holiday
The group becomes its own entity, inseparable and separate from the coherence of each individual member, like a bastard mafia always ready to perform its ethic of collective anonymity. — Read on harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/a-new-theory-of-the-entourage-part
Abortion, Every Day (11.15.22)
Leaked audio: Anti-abortion group tells TN lawmakers when to go after IVF & contraception — Read on jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-111522
we kissed the possible
and the laws changed and you couldn’t leave as muchif you didn’t have the right color passportand i had to go visit my friend in londonthey had a green passportand mine was blue and we was blueand mines was bluesand yours was tooand we laughed at itwe had to laugh kept us from dyingand weContinue reading “we kissed the possible”
Fanny – Ain’t That Peculiar
Chronological Snobbery: The Peoples is Peoples Speech (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984)
“Hey. I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Is not city open. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?” – Pete (Louis Zorich), a Manhattan restaurateur, to Kermit the Frog, offering perhaps theContinue reading “Chronological Snobbery: The Peoples is Peoples Speech (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984)”
the wedding was postponed
the wedding was postponed not for lack of love but the abundance of it we wanted courtship to go on and on and on wedding was postponed cuz we wanted to keep each other closer than bonds of servitude the ring was scrapped and made into necklaces that still hang and we hangin on toContinue reading “the wedding was postponed”
Vum Vum – Xé-Xé-Xé Kangrima (1969)
xé-xé kangrima HA HA HA xé-xé-xé kangrima HA HA HA xé-xé-xé kangrimaaaaaaaaaa
a poem for alton ellis
the ghost of ellis come to me at nightscream-in my ear bout all not right can’t stand stay this way of living cuz I’m from black upbringing the ghost of alton croon to me about all that life could really be never never got the right to say never really got the chance to doContinue reading “a poem for alton ellis”
Aida Rends 