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in the land of milk & honey

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divine hours she/her/hers, white, cis femme for femmes anon is on--just ask me to tag
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lifeinpoetry
                       thank you. thank you all. thank you
                              all night. I’m sorry. we hold our
                                    country. I feel it too. this is painful.
                                             we hold our country. you mean
                                   more than I can ever. lift me across.
                                    the body is pain, is public. it hurts
                                                                 now—the glass is deep and weary.

— Emily Corwin, “erasure of Hillary Clinton’s concession speech,” published in Yes, Poetry

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thebigblackwolfe

So anyway when are the organizers for the Women’s March on Washington going to give Raquel Willis a formal and EXTENSIVE apology for cutting her mic off during her speech???

Raquel Willis starts at 7:37 and they cut her mic at 10:15. Right after she said “no one can be an afterthought anymore"… they proceeded to treat her like an afterthought.

Do better.

boost this please

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quantumdialectics
…sometimes protests get “out of hand,” which is to say, they actually impact the authorities’ ability to keep the population under control. Then, without fail, police and politicians proceed to the second strategy in their playbook: they declare that they support the protesters and are there to defend their rights, but a few bad apples are spoiling the bunch. In this new narrative, the enemies of the protesters are not the police who are gassing and shooting people, but those who resist the police and their violence. When this strategy works, it enables the police to go back to harassing, beating, arresting, and killing people with impunity—certain people, anyway. Sure enough, a few hours after these articles about “criminals” and “outside agitators” appeared, the St. Louis police killed another man less than three miles from Ferguson. Here we see how defining people as “criminals” and “outsiders” is itself an act of violence, setting the stage for further violence. You can predict police behavior at protests with a fair degree of accuracy based on the rhetoric they deploy in advance to prepare the terrain… Throughout the civil rights struggles of the 20th century, participants who are celebrated as heroes today were tarred as “outside agitators.” The term has a long history on the tongues of racists and reactionaries.

The Making of “Outside Agitators” “By borrowing a charge used against civil rights movement participants and 60s-era militants of color like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, and even Martin Luther King Jr., as “outside agitators,” city residents have been told that the interests of all “authentic Oaklanders” are the same.“ - Who is Oakland: Antioppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation 

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skarchomp

“all nazis are bad” should be literally the easiest safest most unanimous political statement you could make what is happening

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dirtygem

cringing at that one post condemning the trans community’s reaction to the use of “pussy” as an icon or focal point of the woman’s march. it’s so cisplainy. do you really think any single woman, trans or cis, isn’t aware of the fact that it is a reaction to donald trump’s vulgar statement, and the general fear of sexual violence and reduced reproduction rights? literally every trans woman knows that. but when you make reproductive organs the emblematic icon of the whole movement it does more than just make it a talking point, it says woman’s march equals this. woman’s march equals vagina. woman equals vagina. and ignores the equally rational fears of violence against and the reported fetishization and exploitation of trans women, and an increased difficulty in receiving medical treatment. i can assure you not a single trans woman is unaware of the significance of fighting for reproductive rights or the significance of “pussy” in donald trumps rhetoric. but i am damn positive half the people wearing the pink pussy hats the other day couldn’t even tell you what trans is.

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dirtygem
What if all you had was a narrative that intervened? Again and again and again. What would it teach us. How could it liberate us from the narratives that kill, maim and destroy us? Could it? What if I never ask if I am “doing it right” ever again…What if we created forms that prioritized being with each other, being with the work, being with the possibilities, more than they prioritize the gymnastics of trying to get it right in a structure built on our wrongness?

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, in an interview on her new book, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

this is so important. thinking about how school teaches us to be focused on product and not community or collaboration or process. & lets not talk about museums or the art market...

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