“Live for today and not for tomorrow, is the wisdom of a fool.” – Big Youth
ends versus means
every body
is an end
in itself
meaning
we are not here
to profit
we are not here
to exploit
we are not here
to suffer
we are here
to walk this
shining earth
A-APRP Press Release Condemning Invasion of PAIGC Central Committe Meeting -19 March 2022
All eyes on Guinea Bissau.
howling out
come back to me?
you sound just like
a dog who buried
her bone and don’t
know where she put
it only to see
a tree blooming a
boneshard blossom
only then will you
know your mistake
Springtime Again!!
it's spring it's spring spring time again it's spring it's spring springtime again
An Interview with Audre Lorde
“And working with Black students, working with students who really questioned and caused, forced me to question what we were doing, how did we move, and what was the place, for instance, of our writing, of our poetry? And I came to see, first to feel, then to see, and then to share the fact that my poetry, and theirs by extension, were part of our weaponry. That writing, that creativity was not separate from our living, was not separate from what we had to do, from our work, that this was an aspect of our work, it was an aspect of my work. And both threatening and very very satisfying.”
Fran Lebowitz Collection on Letterman, 1980-2010
a queen, methinks
THIS IS A GLOBAL WARNING
we luv u kelli
How to Withstand the Neo-Fascists Conquest of Power
“It is my honest assessment that as of this writing we have a little less than two years before the neo-confederates and neo-fascists install a reactionary dictatorship by the end of January 2025. In light of my comments regarding this development, many people have been asking, and rightfully so, what should be done to confront the advance of this ultra-reactionary dictatorship over the US empire.”
Organizing to Free the Land
“Some of that’s already baked in and been baked in for a minute. We need to be real about that. But there is enough time. The sooner we can force either a system change or major reform from capital, and I prefer the former rather than the latter, there’s still some time to make some critical changes and to stop some of the effects. Or at least not have them run into this runaway scenarios that are already off the charts. And people would rest assured that a lot of critical indices, we are already well past where most of the climate change models were at for like a 20 or 30 year cycle. We are already there. And so the pace is accelerating beyond what many of the models are already exceeding.
So Black folks got to take this real. African people got to take this real.”
“So I didn’t put this piece out for folks to panic. That’s the exact opposite of what I’m hoping that folks would do. I was arguing with somebody a couple of weeks ago. I was like, “panic was 10 years ago. We already passed that, we missed that opportunity a while ago.” Now I think it’s a question of, within the limited time that we have, how do we best position ourselves and what material basis can we establish that might enable us to engage in sustained struggle? And then be clear about what the weaknesses of the period are and what we need to call on automatically.”
Aida Rends 