a late daughtering. a late offering to didi. didi being short for diana. a statue the goddess or the man who knew i fixed a bead on the containment of all human emotions. slowly tried to breathe but found every efforts cut short cut dreams cut grasses savory lights beamed lights in from above theContinue reading “a late daughtering”
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witness
my mother is learning to playall the things she couldn’t play my mother is learning to sayall the things she couldn’t say and i am witness to this glorious glorious woman whatever we make we make together i am witness
The Pitfalls of Liberalism
While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. — Read on redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/
How Lucinda Williams Found Her Muse | The New Yorker
An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse
Theorizing the Structural Location of Blackness — The Caribbean Philosophical Association
I argue that Blackness is a “structural location” peculiar to the intersection of capitalist exploitation and anti-Black racialization. — Read on caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/structural-location-of-blackness
your love haiku
your love rocks me to sleep and wakes me up againi’m so so lucky!
Monthly Review | What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael Lebowitz expounds on the simple truths found in Marx’s theory of value—truths that, nonetheless, have been obscured by decades of incomplete theorizing… — Read on monthlyreview.org/2023/09/01/what-every-child-should-know-about-marxs-theory-of-value/
W.E.B. Du Bois: My last message, June 1957
My last message, June 1957 — Read on credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b160-i466
wed the sea
you need a crew with you to do what you gotta do, so tru i rely on who do for do ordon’t be scared of youor me or who or what orshe was what you were to me, see? would you wed the seayou need a crewthis is undisputed would you wed the sea instead?
Bishops of West Africa warn against military intervention in Niger – Vatican News
The Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO) urges African governments “to show restraint, discernment and responsibility” in … — Read on http://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2023-08/bishops-of-west-africa-against-military-intervention-in-niger.html