you deserve what you want and so do i i'm sorry sister goodbye, goodbye
the weight of all these things i cannot change
you saw that i was afraid
and called me a coward
you saw that i was hungry
and called me a beggar
you saw that i was tired
and called me lazy
you saw that i was angry
and called me danger
what is the weight of all
these things i cannot change?
Quote of the Day – March 25
“Because it not just in one place or in one way that capitalism oppresses. It oppresses you if you’re a woman. It oppresses you if you’re a white-collar worker. It oppresses if you’re a blue-collar worker. It oppresses if you’re a campesino. It oppresses if you if you’re a young person. It oppresses you if you are a child. It oppresses you if you’re a teacher. It oppresses you if you’re a student. It oppresses you if you’re an artist. It oppresses you if you think. It oppresses you if you are human, or plant, or water, or earth or air or animal.”
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés
“From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.”
“In the name of the EZLN, the men, women, children and elders of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.”
Mexico, April-May of 2015.
US Congress Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine (2015)
“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
Aida Rends 