“I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, along with my measures to keep the dangerous and easily trafficked MANPADs out of these unstable regions,” said Conyers…
moves mountains
fe - connoisseur
of all the spots
and grasses
to rest and all
the ciders and
wines and chemicals
who showed me the
woman in the mountain
and the word for spider
in yr language
thank you
Quote of the Day – March 24
“The dichotomy between the spiritual and the political is false, resulting from an incomplete attention to our erotic knowledge. A bridge which connects the spiritual and the political is formed by the erotic. The sensual, those physical, emotional, psychic expressions of what is deepest and strongest and richest within each one of us, being shared. The passions of love in its deepest meanings. The considerate phrase, “it feels right to me,” acknowledges the strength of the erotic into a true knowledge. For what that phrase means and feels is the first and most powerful guiding light toward any understanding. And I ask that you remember always, understanding is a handmaiden. A handmaiden which can only wait upon or clarify that knowledge deeply-born. And the erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of our deepest knowledge.” – Audre Lorde, The Uses of the Erotic
Quote of the Day – March 23
“The use of words, the way words are used, the way language is used and turned around so that he (Reagan) can go on national television and say, ‘well I’ve decided we won’t call it an invasion anymore, we’ll call it a rescue.’ Right? And smile and wait for…and the newspapers begin to pick this up, some of them. The ways in which language is used against us, the ways in which silence is used against us.” – Audre Lorde
songs we learned to hate in school
songs we
learned
to hate
our selves
in school
we learnt
to hate
the color
of me
in songs
we learnt
to hate
the sheep
whose fleece
was white
as snow
Black feminism at the end of the world: an interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson | SpringerLink
Black feminism at the end of the world: an interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
— Read on link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41312-022-00131-7
Quote of the Day – March 22
“All of these things are hooked together. Racism is not merely a little blemish that happens in this country. It’s not really, oh, a moral vice. It is a worldwide-economic-institutional structure of oppression.”
– Audre Lorde
Eugene McDaniels – Supermarket Blues
“Strolled up to the counter, slammed my hand down on the cashier and said ‘SCUSE ME PLEASE.”
Bouba et Sokona Sacko (RTM)
Shreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
Non-monogamy in Audre Lorde’s Zami
“Muriel and I decided that nothing could break the bonds between us, certainly not the sharing of our bodies and our joys with another woman whom we had come to love also. Our taking of Lynn to our bed became, not merely a fact to be integrated into our living, but a test for each one of us of our love and our openness. It was a beautiful vision, but a very difficult experiment.”
Aida Rends 