May 2012
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howtobeterrell:
greydotmatters:
[still] researching to see if there has ever been any public discourse/criticism of ntozake’s work with robert mapplethorpe.
…even more interested to read/hear why she choose to work with him.
Say what?
she wrote the foreword for his book ‘Black Book’
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“If I had never seen him work, I might never have known he loved me.”
– Clementine “Tish” Rivers If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin p. 42
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what i just read: [baldwin] →
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“Thirty [years old]. And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there is absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it. You attach yourself to...
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...where it begins & ends.
“I had never seen Fonny outside of the world in which I moved. I had seen him with his father and his mother and his sisters, and I had seen him with us. But I’m not sure, now that I think about it, that I had ever really seen him with me: not until this moment when we were leaving the restaurant and all the waiters were laughing and talk- ing with him, in Spanish and in English, and...
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[still] researching to see if there has ever been any public discourse/criticism of ntozake’s work with robert mapplethorpe.
…even more interested to read/hear why she choose to work with him.
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“To claim the space of healthy erotic agency black males (and those of us who...”
– bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men & Masculinity (via inquotation)
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“I have always, I think opposed the stereotypic definitions of “masculine” and...”
– Toni Cade Bambara (via thistr3reads)
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Son of Baldwin: Gay Is NOT the New Black →
sonofbaldwin:
As a man who is both black and gay, I can tell you, with all certainty, that gay is NOT the new black. If it was, racism would be a suitable word to describe the discrimination I face as a gay man and homophobia would be a suitable word to describe the discrimination I face as a black man. If gay is the new black, what does that mean for gay black folk: that we’re DOUBLE black? If...
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SIGNAL BOOST: MEDIA IGNORE THEFT OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S... →
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{please please consider donating or at least spreading the word about this. anybody who is a queer person of color understands how vital this person’s work is to the visibility of qpocs and especially qpocs of african descent}
Laura Reynolds
Tue, 15 May 2012 10:52:52 GMT
An award winning photographer who has devoted her working life to documenting the lives of...
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On the Queerness of Self Love →
crunkfeministcollective:
Self Love by Artnoose
While conducting a seminar with college students about self-esteem, Yolo Akili heard a young person say something that remains an important touchstone for those of us trying to do liberatory work in our communities. When talking about loving oneself, a Black woman said, “Self love? That shit’s gay!”
I’ve turned this statement over in my head a...
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[consistent] saturday night thoughts when [random]...
[05.12.12] bodies and spaces bodiesandspaces bodies black black bodies and spaces queerblack bodies black spaces black queer spaces black queer bodies and spaces
black sounds and revelations oratorical traditions and…
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“How much of wanting another man is the desire to be that man? So many gay men...”
– Shepherd, Reginald. “On Not Being White.” In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1986. 53. Print. (via stetx)
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'ego' by ntozake shange
(for june jordan)
use of the word i is totally unjustifiable so we have no way of distinguishin i from whatever we are unless somethin else is going on that mistakes the dynamic of us for mine or the treasure of ours for theirs, we talkin abt sharin or isn’t one all encompassin ego enough to satisfy you/ us is all we got ‘n won’t one...
what i just read: [rant] on "gay marriage" & "the... →
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when did the Seventh Day Adventists, the Southern Baptist Church, the American Baptist Church (USA), the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Mennonites, the Methodist Church, the United Pentecostal Church, the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), the Church of God (Anderson, IN), the Assemblies of God — pretty much, when did mainline white christian organizations — begin...
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Obama Loves Queers! (Except Not) →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
President Obama just “endorsed” gay marriage. And guess what? I barely give a damn.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s okay. It’s fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Saying that gay people who want to get married to each other should be able to do so is basically a good position. And considering that North Carolina just banned gay marriage like...
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“It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our...”
– Audre Lorde, Uses of the erotic: the erotic as power, 1989 (via malomematome)
s o m u c h s p a c e.
Please Listen to Darnell "Dynasty" Young's...
sonofbaldwin:
Darnell, left, with his brother. Affirm him! Be his witness!
Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/darnell-dynasty-young-gay-student-stun-gun_n_1471921.html
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“Black heterosexual love and self-love frightens the shit out of white...”
– Son ofBaldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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"Sunflower Sonnet Number Two" by June Jordan
Supposing we could just go on and on as two voracious in the days apart as well as when we side by side (the many ways we do that) well! I would consider then perfection possible, or else worthwhile to think about. Which is to say I guess the costs of long term tend to pile up, block and complicate, erase away the accidental, temporary, near thing/pulsebeat promises one makes because the chance,...
April 2012
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"Sunflower Sonnet Number One" by June Jordan
But if I tell you how my heart swings wide enough to motivate flirtations with the trees or how the happiness of passion freaks inside me, will you then believe the faithful, yearning freeze on random, fast explosions that I place upon my lust? Or must I say the streets are bare unless it is your door I face unless they are your eyes that, rare as tulips on a cold night, trick my mind to oranges...
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