June 2012
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Samuel R. Delany - "Racism and Science Fiction"... →
For better or for worse, I am often spoken of as the first African-American science fiction writer. But I wear that originary label as uneasily as any writer has worn the label of science fiction itself. Among the ranks of what is often referred to as proto-science fiction, there are a number of black writers. M. P. Shiel, whose Purple Cloud and Lord of the Sea are still read, was a Creole with...
Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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Liberation from Within: Happy 97th Birthday to... →
June 27, 2012 ~ Happy 97th Birthday to Grace Lee Boggs!!! “We are at a stage in human history that is as monumental as changing from a hunter/gatherer society to an agricultural society and from an agricultural society to an industrial society. Where we’re headed now will be different because we have exhausted planetary space and human space for us to continue to look at things through the...
Jun 28th
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“Freedom from colonialism is not merely a legal independence, the right to run up...”
– Lecture on Federation, (West Indies and British Guiana) - C.L.R. James (1958) via lifeintheseisles
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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“The Argument here redefines Marx’s class struggle in the terms of a “politics of...”
– Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” 
Jun 27th
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“Responsible members must take life seriously, conscious of their...”
– Amilcar Cabral - Revolution in Guinea, Stage 1 (1974) http://bit.ly/mh7URj
Jun 26th
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Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den...
Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
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“I begin, a sentence lover. I’m forever delighted, then delighted all over, at...”
– Samuel R. Delany - The Semiology of Silence (1983)
Jun 24th
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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A Zapatista Response to “The EZLN Is NOT... →
(Note: This is a letter sent to the anarchist periodical “Green Anarchy” sometime around 2002, but it stands alone just fine.) First and foremost, it must be said that only small elements of the Frente Zapatista are willing to engage in a debate with insignificant elements along an ideological fringe. One would find even fewer warriors within the Ejercito Zapatista who would be willing to...
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 7th
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Hortense Spillers on Race as a "Logical Fallacy"
Its tenacious powers of renewal and variation re­main impressive-for example, “race” today is known in some circles of American academe as an “intellectual fallacy.” If one can succeed in establishing “race” as a logical fallacy-a “dance” performed on the surface of a page, or the cerebral cortex-then s/he is free to retrieve the most traditional and...
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Petition to Move CeCe McDonald to a Women's... →
Please take a moment to sign this petition and to pass it on. It asks that CeCe serve her time in a women’s prison rather than a men’s facility, where she is currently set to serve her time. I don’t even know if these petitions can accomplish anything, but it’s worth the thirty seconds it took, at least.
Jun 5th
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“Racism and capitalism have trampled the potential of black people in this...”
–  Third World Women’s Alliance. Black Woman’s Manifesto
Jun 4th
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