did we kill the author 
because we didn’t want 
to think about their nastiness
because we didn’t want
to think about ourselves
because we didn’t want
to live? 

Sandra Lahire was a central member of the feminist and experimental filmmaking community in London in the 1980s and 1990s. She made ten 16mm films, most of them under half an hour in length. Marked by corporeal vulnerability – her own, that of the female body, the body of the earth, the body of film – Lahire’s work proposes a comparison between the violence committed by patriarchal society against women and that committed by humans against the non-human world.
— Read on www.another-screen.com/a-moving-x-ray-seven-by-sandra-lahire

I went to the store and found a bottle of beer half-drunk in the stairway near the exit. What the hell, I thought, and took a swig. There was a leftover cigarette butt from somebody’s smoke break and I ended up spilling on my suede shoes. Fuck.

are you ready?
for light to shine in on your backdoor
the trinkets and refuse of living 
to show the world?
the color line has not budged an inch
now there are simply dosados
we stand where our grandparents did
we stand ready to fall ready to die 
so that we may live
are you ready? 

i have always been a very good student, always sat very still and listened, honestly listened. And took things at face value. 

what does it mean to rebel?
what do you mean to me?
rebel. 

what do you need from me?
if i can give it. 
rebel.