April 2012
47 posts
“Racism Fact: Many people of color have internalized the white supremacist view...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
“It seems to me that the best art is political and you ought to make it...”
– Toni Morrison (via monamade)
Entrepreneur watch: Giving farmers a backpack for... →
ealiving:
A backpack packed with everything you need to run a successful small-scale farming operation. This is what an innovative company is offering small-scale farmers in Kenya and southern Sudan. How we made it in Africa’s Regina Ekiru caught up with Rachel Zedeck, founder and managing director of Backpack Farm.
The Backpack Farm packed with all the essential agriculture inputs such as...
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Letters of Note: Forget your personal tragedy (via nevver)
““There was one girl in our school whose mother made her wear a clothespin on her...”
– Assata Shakur (via daughterofzami)
“but we were taught that women had to make great sacrifices to be beautiful…”
(via up-away)
“If you learn about who you are, it gives you a foundation to build your life on...”
– Ron Thomas, Onondaga Elder from Six Nations (via urbannativegirl)
Vimeo Festival + Awards →
I just voted for the amazing Trini short Pothound in the Vimeo Awards — and you should too! Help choose the world’s best videos at vimeo.com/awards
Here’s a review I wrote about it in January http://www.guardian.co.tt/columnist/saturday-january-14-2012/pothound-lesson-humans
Son of Baldwin: "The Cake Is Baked" by @KolaBoof →
sonofbaldwin:
When I want to know about the horrific act of genital mutilation, I don’t listen to the testimony of a biracial man living in Sweden. I listen to a black woman from Sudan who has actually experienced it.
http://www.owlasylum.net/?p=1823
I would implore you to follow her on Twitter
“Every colonized people— In other words, every people in whose soul an...”
– Frantz Fanon; Black Skin, White Masks. (via atreegrowsinbrixton)
The Àse Fountain: On Mikode Linde's "Painful Cake" →
theasefountain:
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/sweden-firestorm-over-cake-art-installation-0022178
It seems to me that the artist has created something that has symbolic resonances far beyond what he imagined or intended. His own explanation of his work is that the piece is part of a project exploring…
“As the Nova Scotian women before them, Yoruba women brought to Sierra Leone a...”
– Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century Author(s): E. Frances White Source: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1981), pp. 626- 642 Published by: Boston University African Studies Center (via cosmicyoruba)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via 1612th)
“The colonist keeps the colonized in a state of rage, which he prevents from...”
– Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via wretchedoftheearth)
3 tags
“i loved you on purpose
i was open on purpose
i still crave vulnerability &...”
– Ntozake Shange (via wretchedoftheearth)
kindymaling:
no sorry santorum you have to carry your dead presidential campaign to full term
If Harry Potter was an anime.
adrjs:
EDGGYHUYRTGHRTYRTYHRTUSRTURT6UIUJRJAUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUNA AND HERMIONE AND SNAPE!!!!!!!
“An act is oppressive only when it prevents people from being more fully human.”
– Paulo Freire (via wretchedoftheearth)
“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without...”
– bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love. (via alone-ontheeastcoast)
“i found god in myself
& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”
– Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (via wretchedoftheearth)
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more...”
– Albert Einstein
Preach it, love.
(via veronicaraqueldiaz)
