A clip from a video near and dear to my heart has resurfaced! Although I keep my bootleg copy close to my heart, the Poetry Center at SFSU has graciously uploaded part of a juicy and clean copy of Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir performing her poem/song “canto negro.” Poetry Center callsContinue reading “VIDEOLAND: Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir, 1975, “Canto Negro” – The Poetry Center”
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questions i
did we kill the author because we didn’t want to think about their nastinessbecause we didn’t wantto think about ourselvesbecause we didn’t wantto live?
A Moving X-Ray: Seven by Sandra Lahire | Another Screen
Sandra Lahire was a central member of the feminist and experimental filmmaking community in London in the 1980s and 1990s. She made ten 16mm films, most of them under half an hour in length. Marked by corporeal vulnerability – her own, that of the female body, the body of the earth, the body of filmContinue reading “A Moving X-Ray: Seven by Sandra Lahire | Another Screen”
Mandy, the Not Mindful I
I went to the store and found a bottle of beer half-drunk in the stairway near the exit. What the hell, I thought, and took a swig. There was a leftover cigarette butt from somebody’s smoke break and I ended up spilling on my suede shoes. Fuck.
are you ready?
are you ready?for light to shine in on your backdoorthe trinkets and refuse of living to show the world?the color line has not budged an inchnow there are simply dosadoswe stand where our grandparents didwe stand ready to fall ready to die so that we may liveare you ready?
rebel
i have always been a very good student, always sat very still and listened, honestly listened. And took things at face value. what does it mean to rebel?what do you mean to me?rebel. what do you need from me?if i can give it. rebel.
#2: An African Liberation Day Resource List — Charisse Burden-Stelly
ALD provides a collective opportunity to recommit ourselves to political education, organizing, and sober analysis as our material conditions rapidly deteriorate and the need for a viable alternative becomes more urgent. — Read on http://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/blog/2-african-liberation-day
African Liberation Day 2022: Smash Neo-Colonialism! – Hood Communist
Hood Communist seeks to clarify the confusion that exists about neo-colonialism because unless we can rid ourselves of it, it will drown us. — Read on hoodcommunist.org/2022/05/26/african-liberation-day-2022-smash-neo-colonialism/amp/
if you love me
if you love medon’t say anything if you hate mespeak upi can take itthey called me mute because of love(this is a collaborative poem)(between A + M)
just say no
i rolled a joint for you but got so highthat i forgot to light it next time try being less lovely