If the first rule of a dysfunctional system is ‘Don’t talk about it,’ then our primary goal should be to tell the truth, to be as honest as we can manage to be. When I read something truthful, something real, I breathe a deep sigh of relief and say, ‘Fantastic - I wasn’t mad or alone in thinking that, after all!’ So often we are left to our own devices, struggling in the dark with this external and internal propaganda system. At that point, for someone to tell us the truth is a gift. In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness.
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David Edwards, Burning All Illusions (via dishabillic)
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notesonascandal:
chinaija:
dailydot:
Spike Lee creepin on Reggie Miller.
When I hear my name in some bullshit…
If you know their history, this right here is perfection. I AM DYING!!!
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
Concerning “supportive space” in the academy, higher education depends upon the continued support of elites, given that it is a leading sector of the global North whose governing principles include the management and control of disenfranchised communities. Institutions of higher education have a vested interest in keeping scholarship “objective” (mystifying), “nonpolitical” (nonsubversive), and “academic” (elitist) and in continuing to reserve the most advanced technical training for that small portion of the world’s population who will manage the rest, as well as consume or control its resources and political economies. Unless elite educational institutions are transformed, activist research will never reside within the academic mainstream as an entity that produces a revolutionary, or even radical, counternarrative and practice.
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Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon. 2008. ‘Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects?’ in Charles R. Hale, ed. Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship: 368. (via james-bliss)
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thepeoplesrecord:
BREAKING EMERGENCY RESPONSE: COME TO COOPER UNION @ 6PM FOR A RALLY TODAY! Free Cooper Union students announced that security is warning them right now of disciplinary actions if they don’t leave the president’s office by 6pm. If you’re available, please come to show solidarity!
Please, if you’re in NYC, come to show your support. Show up ready to defend free education on demand.
Democracy Now! on the Cooper Union occupation.
It’s sort of like if you have two kids, and you give one of them a cookie and the other one half a cookie. Then you give the kid with half a cookie another half a cookie to make it even, and the kid with the whole cookie starts to scream about how it’s not fair that the second kid got ‘two cookies’.
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My friend on the subject of privileged groups claiming to be oppressed by steps taken to work towards equality of oppressed groups. (via nationofsluts)
What’s funny is that that very young children do just this because of how they perceive units versus subunits. So, yeah, acting with the intelligence of someone who’s not even four.
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Commentary.
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melgignai:
Petition to reform the high school history curriculum to include the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the residential schools episode
Deadline to sign online-petition: May 11, 2013
I would really appreciate if all my followers could sign this and pass it on. It’s important for people in Canada, especially Quebec, to realize the importance of teaching about Native history.
I believe you should be able to look at an English version of it but I don’t know if the link differs. Just in case:
Prenom = first name
Nom = last name
Ville = city
Province/Etat = province/state
Pays = country
Code postal = postal/area code
Courriel = email
Confirmez votre courriel = confirm your email
I truly appreciate any signatures, likes and reblogs on this post.
lilacid:
niggaqueef:
when you sat in a weird position for a long time and you move and then your foot feels like this
most accurate description of anything accurate ever in the history of accuracy
