The Imagination

thesmithian: …up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:11 -0400

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

more.

"I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:35:12 -0400

“I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.”

- Sandra Cisneros (via erraticintrovert)

this is a daily goal.

(via ayoitsdezzy)

readabookson: Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (Second...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:53:13 -0400

readabookson:

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition)

https://anonfiles.com/file/17bcf2e3d649fc184970e744b8b8ed1c

Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, And the Politics of Language

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:52:42 -0400

ianthelibrary:

https://anonfiles.com/file/f7e52ead896d2ce288d10d48f7d386bb

"White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:52:04 -0400

“White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just like them. What kind of necrophilia is that?”

- A Huey P. Newton Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WrVx-kS8

(via asantecanuslove)

No but seriously…it’s weird….

(via ethnicnraunchy)

Black Looks: Queer African Reader

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:14:01 -0400

Black Looks: Queer African Reader :

blacklooks:

It started as a one year project and ended up taking us three years but finally Hakima and I are able to announce the publication of the Queer African Reader by Fahamu Books.

A richness of voices, a multiplicity of discourses, a quiverful of arguments. African queers writing…

ancestryinprogress: she’s all i want

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:11:26 -0400

ancestryinprogress:

she’s all i want

Looking for music with funk and soul…any ideas?

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:35:48 -0400

Looking for music with funk and soul…any ideas?

unclecreemy: Erykah Badu - Silver Spring, MD, February 28 -...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:15:46 -0400

unclecreemy:

Erykah Badu - Silver Spring, MD, February 28 - March 1, 2013 concert poster

design by Emek

"i just allow my hands to work thru my hair. twisting or braiding in which ever way that my brain..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:14:34 -0400

“

i just allow my hands to work thru my hair. twisting or braiding in which ever way that my brain tells them to. i seem to be thinking, i seem to only be thinking about what my hands are producing. i am pleased each time i see a beautifully twisted piece of hair. my hands feel soft. my hair feels moisturized. it confuses me sometimes. it curls differently in certain places. it is longer in others. it feels dry at the sides. it feels saturated in the middle. each curl tells me its name. my whole head whispers the gossip of my ancestors. they be telling them grown woman stories.
i’m finally old enough they say.

wisdom sits in my hair. i’m finally beginning to understand how to extract it.

”

- Luna, excerpt from “a sunday morning meditation” (via ancestryinprogress)

"So I stopped combing my mind so my thoughts could lock/ I’m tired of trying to understand/..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:13:42 -0400

“So I stopped combing my mind so my thoughts could lock/ I’m tired of trying to understand/ Perceptions are mangled, matted & knotted anyway”

- Saul Williams, Untimely Meditations (via holaafrica)

"I’m going to make a store called “Build-a-Bra” where girls can go and make bras that are for them if..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:13:37 -0400

“I’m going to make a store called “Build-a-Bra” where girls can go and make bras that are for them if they have different shaped boobs. And really big boobs. And really small boobs. And bras for boys that they can stuff if they want them. And really any kind of boobs. And you’ll choose the size of each cup and then you can choose the color and pattern and shape. And it’ll be really cheap. But lace and diamonds will cost a little extra”

- my 12 year old “niece” Lila on her business idea.

I love that little girl.

(via marrymejasonsegel)

Best idea.

(via shakethecobwebs)

I wanna go

(via godricsgirl)

LACE AND DIAMONDS WILL COST A LITTLE EXTRA!

(via mojoflower)

This girl needs a kickstarter. For real.

(via sourcedumal)

I vote her for presidency

(via strugglingtobeheard)

Photo

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:07:54 -0400

braidedkinks: STILL LOVING THEM LOCS

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:48:31 -0400

braidedkinks:

STILL LOVING THEM LOCS

pinoy-culture: aineeething: Even legends take a coffee...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:11:40 -0400

pinoy-culture:

aineeething:

Even legends take a coffee break.

Apo Whang-Od, well known mambabatok, (tattoo artist), and the last one among the Kalinga. However despite what everyone says of her being the last one and when she dies the Kalinga tattooing tradition dies with her, that is false. She is currently training her young niece, Grace, whose strong interest in preserving the tattooing tradition among the Kalinga, a tradition that has died out over years of colonization among the rest of the Philippines especially among the Bisayans who were called the Pintados, “the Painted Ones”, by the Spaniards as they were known to be covered in tattoo’s all over their body, will keep the tradition alive.

Training and preserving knowledge. Makes me want to go and lay next to my grandmama.

"apologize to your body. maybe, that’s where the healing begins."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:01:54 -0400

“apologize to your body.
maybe,
that’s where the healing begins.”

- starting, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

deadinmotion: https://anonfiles.com/file/272df6513713b700e95818d...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:44:13 -0400

deadinmotion:

https://anonfiles.com/file/272df6513713b700e95818dc258c10ea (rar file, epub format)

To read in Epub, Adobe Digital Editions

To convert to other formats, Calibre

xicanita-voz: In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:41:27 -0400

xicanita-voz:

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present. Johnson argues that struggles waged in response to institutional and social repression have created both moments and movements in which Blacks and Chicanos have unmasked power imbalances, sought recognition, and forged solidarities by embracing the strategies, cultures, and politics of each others’ experiences. At the center of this study is the theory of spatial entitlement: the spatial strategies and vernaculars utilized by working class youth to resist the demarcations of race and class that emerged in the postwar era. In this important new book, Johnson reveals how racial alliances and antagonisms between Blacks and Chicanos in L.A. had spatial as well as racial dimensions.

I was very lucky to have taken Professora Johnson’s classes while at UCSB, just gotta say she is such a badass muxer. She was one of my favorite professora’s at Black Studies. I can’t wait to read it once i get back home.

kwamezulushabazz: “The bloody US conquest of Hawaii: days that...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:56:54 -0400

kwamezulushabazz:

“The bloody US conquest of Hawaii: days that will live in infamy.”

gukkies-n-cream:

zuky:

blog-andeol:

… ‘Hawaii Before Statehood, 1959’ image series from Life magazine

The bloody US conquest of Hawaii: days that will live in infamy.

After the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, US President Grover Cleveland commissioned the Blount Report to investigate the US role in those events. The report concluded that the US had illegally supported the toppling of a sovereign nation, including the deployment of US Marines, against the wishes of the majority of the Hawaiian population. Nevertheless, Hawaii was annexed as a US territory in 1898, essentially becoming a plantation colony and a military base for US power projection across the Pacific into Asia, then turned into a US state in 1959.

this is why we dont like America at fucking all we dont even consider ourselves a damn state

Very timely post. I was just talking about this yesterday.

"When you don’t deal with what’s going on it keeps going on."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:17:24 -0400

“When you don’t deal with what’s going on it keeps going on.”

- [via dontaskwilltell] (via shop-lifted)