Most of us have been taught to think of our body as a physical structure, isolated from everything else. But if we think of it as a living system, then a different picture emerges. Traditional Indigenous thinking points towards an open system, connected with the universe and the Creator. In the mid-1970s I wrote downContinue reading “Where do our bodies end? | Ammsa.com”
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Quote of the Week – June 22
“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace, is getting used to harm.” – Dionne Brand
Katherine Dunham sitting in dressing room, February 1, 1948 – Museum of History and Industry – University of Washington Digital Collections
Katherine Dunham sitting in dressing room, February 1, 1948 – Museum of History and Industry – University of Washington Digital Collections — Read on digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/10334/
Katherine Dunham in Tropical Revue | Cecilia Schultz
Seattle, Washington: Cecilia Schultz, 1943. 12mo 8.5” x 5.5” . 8 pp., including printed self-wrappers. Illus. A scarce playbill for a 1943 peformance of Dunham’s Tropical Revue in Seattle.African-American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist and activist Katherine Dunham 1909–2006 enjoyed one of the most successful dance careers of the twentieth century. Tropical — Read on http://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6020/cecilia-schultz/katherine-dunham-in-tropical-revue
booty bump
booty bump bump booty bump bump the thick of us together the thick of it booty bump bump booty bump bump
Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine
A couple of months later, my friend Mary called me up and said it’s on again. I tape recorded it; I transcribed it, and this is when I became really interested in watching not what people say, but how they say it. Particularly when they run out of words. In the case of a personContinue reading “Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine”
wake town tell people
put themclose to your heartmake thema sound in your collageknow thembetter than u know yr selfis an illusionyou came up withto start livingwake towntell people
new york tang poem
chameleon eritrea azalea gunshot subway psychedelia beeswax beesting paranoia peony basil anatolia
George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
“Born in Barbados, he was among the last of a generation of writers who traced the Caribbean’s transition to independence.” Clay Risen renders … George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
epistolary poets
poets when writing letters always seem to forget to leave space for their signature the sign of a mind obsessed with line enjambment so that they forget their own name sincerely,
Aida Rends 