May 2013
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“I think marriage in general is not a healthy institution in our society. If...”
– bell hooks
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Fly as FUCK
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“Victims of racism are created in the image of racists. When the victims struggle...”
– Malcolm X, Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard (pages 165-166)
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“…conspiracy narratives map out the itinerary of evil. But at the same time...”
– The Lacanian Thing
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A DIFFÉRANCE NOT DIFFERENT: ASIAN FETISH, BLACK...
Much has been said in the past three decades about an emerging movement within the arts that has been shaking the foundations of modern conceptions and theories of literature, film, visual arts and theatre. Dr. Brendan Sweetman of Rockhurst University, in his essayPostmodernism, Derrida and Différance: A Critique, defines postmodernism as a critical praxis, “a movement whose central theme is the...
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“Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides...”
– Peter Gelderlos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State
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“If there really is no shared human nature or essence, and if history really is...”
– Claire Colebrook, Understanding Deleuze
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“Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to...”
– Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood superstar, on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice.
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable...”
– Letter from California: Jumpers : The New Yorker
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“The western bourgeoisie has prepared enough fences and railings to have no real...”
– Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth
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best ways to cure an anxiety attack:
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“I am a lesbian woman of Color whose children eat regularly because I work in a...”
– Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger, “Sister Outsider”
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“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My...”
– Audre Lorde
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That their arms and legs, quivering in the face of any roar that dares to claim its authority in opposition to them; docked akimbo at the hips, a stance structured to betray the flushing of their pallid faces, which, broken from somnambulistic fantasy, figure the presage of their self-induced and imminent demise; should be all the warning they really need, should merely state—in delicate...
“If you are going to hurt a woman in the United States, be sure to take a...”
– Andrea Dworkin, “Letter from a War Zone”
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“Whether one likes it or not, the bourgeoisie, as a class, is condemned to take...”
– Aime Cesaire // Discourse on Colonialism
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“The legacy of identity politics has produced a problematic language idealism...”
– J. Moufawad-Paul
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“Any action which does not mobilize the community toward the goal is not a...”
– Huey P Newton
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“What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental...”
– Bruce E. Levine (How psychologists subvert democratic movements)
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“He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.”
– Frantz Fanon
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“Colonialism, simply, is the forced occupation and exploitation of a land, its...”
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From my essay: “’BUT WHERE’S MY STAFF?!’ A POST-COLONIAL FEMINIST DISMANTLING OF SUZY LEE WEISS: AMERICA’S STALEST CRACKER”
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“I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard...”
– Assata Shakur
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“Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities...”
– David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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“We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control 