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.”
African Nationalism is not European Nationalism
When You Speak To Me
When you speak to me I am faced with You very real and proper Anger mixed with concern And yes bio-logic Which forces me to In The Same Breath Defend Myself And take your rage tru To not let myself Off the hooks of your pain But also I cannot go to the sea-floor With you again Seeing as I had been there For so very long
Quote of the Day – March 21
“White supremacy is an aberration. Anytime you have a people that believe themselves to be superior to any other people on the planet, they crazy. And we not treating it like that.” – Jalil Muntaqim, Dec 9 2021
The Uses of the Erotic – Audre Lorde
“The erotic is a resource within each one of us that lies in a very deeply female and spiritual plane. It is firmly rooted in the power of all our unexpressed and unrecognized feelings. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives. We have been taught to suspect this resource, it has been vilified, abused, and devalued within western society. On the one hand, the superficially erotic has been encouraged as a sign of our inferiority; on the other hand, women have been made to suffer and to feel both contemptible and suspect by virtue of its existence. It is a short step from there to the false belief that only by the suppression of the erotic within our lives and consciousness can women be truly strong. But that strength is illusory, for it is fashioned within the context of male models of power.”
dispatch from the hill
the people are beautiful, interesting, hardworking, tired. the city is alive
shimmering tightly wound ‘round itself
like a heart bump, the walls
closing in and we all remark
what a lovely day it is. what a lovely
lovely day it really is
Aida Rends 