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witness

my mother is learning to playall the things she couldn’t play my mother is learning to sayall the things she couldn’t say and i am witness to this glorious glorious woman whatever we make we make together i am witness

The Pitfalls of Liberalism

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. — Read on redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/

How Lucinda Williams Found Her Muse | The New Yorker

An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse

Theorizing the Structural Location of Blackness — The Caribbean Philosophical Association

I argue that Blackness is a “structural location” peculiar to the intersection of capitalist exploitation and anti-Black racialization. — Read on caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/structural-location-of-blackness

your love haiku

your love rocks me to sleep and wakes me up againi’m so so lucky!