Hey guys, this is my citations list. It’s a little rough (some different styes of citations) and a fracture of the helpful texts I’ve come across but it’s a place to start :) This one contains journal articles, speeches, research, pamphlets and studies (amongst other things) that focus race, identity, discrimination, colonization, black consciousness movements, political theory and political philosophy, feminism, black feminism, womanism, the concept of the other, eugenics, overviews of political topics, women’s studies, body politics, etc.
Also some of the scholars and writers of these texts, have a myriad of other informative texts and papers that are worthwhile researching. These are just the ones I’ve been exposed to.
I have decided to divide some of the sources up and place them into some topics of discussion. You’ll find that some citations occur under more than one topic of discussion because many of these texts touch on multiple areas.
Please feel free to add on texts, different media and posts that you think are helpful. They don’t need to be just political sciences, international relations, and philosophy texts. Any texts, books, academic papers/media, podcasts, newspaper articles, interviews etc. from other perspectives and fields is welcome. The more (perspectives and sources) the merrier and the more educated we can become as a collective.
The Concept of Blackness and the Other
Biko, S. (January 1971). White Racism and Black Consciousness: The Totality of White Power in South Africa. White racism and Black Conciousness (pp. 1-11). First Inter-University Research Workshop on Students and Youth in South Africa.
Blum, L. (2019). Chapter 8: Racialised Groups and Social Constructions in "I'm Not a Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary of Race. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Cérsaire, A. (1955). Discourse on Colonialism. In F. L. Hord, M. L. Okpara, & J. S. Lee, I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy (pp. 162-171). Amhearst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Du Bois, W., 1933. On being Ashamed of Oneself: An Essay on Race Pride. Crisis, 40(9), pp.199-200.
Eze, E. (1997). The Colour of Reason: The idea of 'Race' in Kant's Anthropology. Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader, 103-140.
Fanon, F. (1967). Black Skin, White Masks. New York City: Grove Press.
Garvey, M., In Garvey, A. J., & Essien-Udom, E. U. (1967). Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, or, Africa for the Africans.
Magubane, B., 2001. Social Construction of Race and Citizenship in South Africa. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Racism and Public Policy, (September 2001), pp.1-33.
Andrew Heywood is a scholar whose work is very accessible and touches on various political and international issues (His textbooks are great)
Heywood, A. (2011). Chapter 15: Poverty and Development. In A. Heywood, Global Politics (pp. 352-379). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Heywood, A. (2011). Regionalism and Global Politics. In A. Heywood, Global Politics (pp. 480-506). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian.
Heywood, A. (2013). Politics, Society and Identity. In A. Heywood, Politics (pp. 151- 170). Houndmills: Palgrave.
Eugenics
Eze, E. (1997). The Colour of Reason: The idea of 'Race' in Kant's Anthropology. Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader, 103-140.
Naicker, L. (2012). The role of eugenics and religion in the construction of race in South Africa (Volume 38 (2) ed.). Pretoria: Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae.
Rich, P. (1990). Race, Science, and the Legitimization of White Supremacy in South Africa, 1902-1940. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, 665-686.
Sutton, G. (2007). The Layering of History: A brief look at Eugenics, the Holocaust and Scientific Racism in South Africa. Yesterday & Today No 1, 22-29.
The legacy of colonialism and colonial ideology (this also includes the various waves of Black Consciousness thought from various global regions that include the Caribbean, North America as well as Africa)
Mamdani, M., 2001. Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism. Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43(4), pp.651-664.
Biko, S. (January 1971). White Racism and Black Consciousness: The Totality of White Power in South Africa. White racism and Black Consciousness (pp. 1-11). First Inter-University Research Workshop on Students and Youth in South Africa.
Biko, S., & Stubbs, A. (1987). I write what I like: A selection of his writings. Heinemann.
Cérsaire, A. (1955). Discourse on Colonialism. In F. L. Hord, M. L. Okpara, & J. S. Lee, I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy. Amhearst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Crenshaw, Kimberle. (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Colour. In Standford Law Review, July, vol. 43. pp. 1241-1299.
Eze, E. (1997). The Colour of Reason: The idea of 'Race' in Kant's Anthropology. Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader, 103-140.
Fanon, F. (1967). Black Skin, White Masks. New York City: Grove Press.
Garvey, M., In Garvey, A. J., & Essien-Udom, E. U. (1967). Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, or, Africa for the Africans.
Hyden G., 2008, 'Institutions, Power and Policy Outcomes in Africa', Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) pp. 1-34, London
Ndaba, B., Owen, T., Panyane, M., Rabbie, S., & Smith, J. (2017). The Black Consciousness Reader (Second Edition) pp. 1-21. New York City: OR Books.
Nkrumah, K. (1968). The Spectre of Black Power. The Spectre of Black Power and The Struggle Continues, 421-434.
Parker, J. & Rathbone, R. (2007). African History: A Very Short Introduction pp. 25-45. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Robinson, C., 1983. Introduction and Chapter 1: The Non Objective character of Capitalist Development. In: C. Robinson, ed., Black Marxism, 1st ed. London: Zed Press, pp.1-28.
Sharplay-Whiting, T. D. (2000). Femme Negritude: Jane Nardal, La Depeche africaine, and the Francophone New Negro. Souls: A Critical journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 8-17.
Multiculturalism, WOC, and hegemonic feminism (also touches on colonialism)
Amos, V & Parmer., P (1984). “Challenging Imperial Feminism”. Feminist Review. 17,
pp 3-19.
Gqola, P.G (2001). “Ufanele Uqavile: Black women, feminism and post coloniality in Africa.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. No. 50, pp11-22. Taylor Francis Ltd.
Lugones, M. (2010). “The Colonality of Gender” in Mignolo Walter, Aturo Escobar (eds.) Globalisation and the Decolonial Option. London: Routledge.
Mohanty, Chandra Talapade. (2003) “Under Western Eyes. Feminist Scholarship amd Colonial Discourses” in Chalra Talapede Mohanty (ed.) Feminism without borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, London: Duke University Press. Pp 1-17
Nash, Jennifer. Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality. Meridiians
Okin Moller, Susan. (1999) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton: Princeton
University. Pp 1.-24
WOC reponses to Okin Moller
Homi K. Bhabha. (1999). “Liberalism’s Sacred Cow” in Susan Okin Moller Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton: Princeton University. Pp.76-79
Honig, Bonnie. (1999). “My Culture Made Me Do It” in Susan Okin Moller Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton: Princeton University. pp. 35—41
Sassen, Saskia. (1999). “Culture beyond Gender” in Susan Okin Moller Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton: Princeton University. Pp.76-79
Black Feminism, Womanism and Black Women’s history
Edgerton, Robert B. (2000) Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 1-37, 121-157.
Farrar, Tarikhu. (1997) “The Queenmother, Matriarchy, and the Question of Female Political Authority in Postcolonial West African Monarchy” in Journal of Black Studies, Vol.27, No.5. pp. 579-597.
Hill Collins, Patricia. (2000) “Work, Family and Black Women’s Oppression,” Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment (2nd ed.), New York: Routledge
White, Deborah Gray. (1999) Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Introduction, Chapter 1, 2, 5.
Black Feminism (with a focus on representing WOC and POC bodies)
Hartman, S (2008). “Venus in Two Acts”. small axe, 12(2), pp 1-14.
Gqola, P. D (2010). “(Not) Representing Sarah Bartmaan“. What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial Slave Memory in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
Baderoon, G (2011). “This is our speech: voice, body and poetic form in recent South Africa writing”. Social Dynamics: A journal of South African Studies. 37:2, pp.213-227
Crenshaw, K (1992). “Whose story is it, anyway? Racist appropriations of Anita Hill”. Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality. Pantheon Books.
Women’s studies and the history of the women and feminist field
Thurner, Manuela. (2003) “Issues and Paradigms in American Women’s History” in Norton, Beth and Ruth M. Alexander. Major Problems in American Women’s History. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 2-8
Bock, Gisela. (2003) “Challenging Dichotomies in Women’s History” in Norton, Beth and Ruth M. Alexander. Major Problems in American Women’s History. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 8-14
Evelyn, Brooks Higginbotham. (2003) “African American Women in History” in Norton, Beth and Ruth M. Alexander (eds.), Major Problems in American Women’s History. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 14-19
Please reblog if you have insight to share or any sources. I hope this may be of use to you!
For context: this came out in 2011 in Australia. Same-sex marriage would not be legalized until December 2017.
It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.
It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)
As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
A Cow is Abducted by a UFO (after The Two-headed Calf by Laura Gilpin)
The calf is still calling for her as the dark slides away across the fields
And the farmer strokes her neck
And he tells her it'll be alright, because his daughter has a soft heart, and she feeds the orphans and the rejects with a bottle made from a milk jug, and she only cries a little when he takes them to the cattle sale
And he never will know what happened to that one heifer
And for the rest of his life it will come back to him while he's mending fences or driving steers into the pens or lying in his bed in the wakeful, watchful dark
One of those mysteries that will never be solved
Just forgotten
And he won't connect his missing cow with the lights they saw in the sky two towns over
Or the boy who wandered off by the river
Who they found 20 miles away, barefoot, confused
Or that one place out on the back roads where the clock in his truck always jumps a few minutes ahead
And the radio goes fuzzy and distorted
And the static sounds a little bit like his mother's voice
Saying that he has a soft heart
And he'll never know that in the dark that night
The stars drifted into strange new shapes
And a wind came up from nowhere
And he'll never know
That even as the cow rose into the sky, lifted by a shining silver disc
A woman not shaving or wearing a dress or wearing makeup or wearing femme clothes or having styled or long hair or caring how she looks or using a masc name or whatever else is actually a neutral thing and not a sign of her being depressed or giving up or being sad or whatever
Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):
Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click.
"Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said.
Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from.
"If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."
And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):
While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.
Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.
And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:
When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.
Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.
Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.
Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”
“It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.
So I saw this news last week and finally switched over to duckduckdo and the difference is STAGGERING. It's like...search from 20 years ago. The results I want are at the TOP. I can't believe I waited so long to switch.
agreed, switching to duckduckgo last year was the single best improvement in my life. just remember to change the search settings > manage ai and turn all the different toggles to Off (duck.ai), Never (search assist), and On (Hide ai images)
“It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.
So when the news sites go out of business, the content creators give up, the only places you can buy things from are the ones big enough to pay Google's going rate for being included in results, and the entire internet has been turned into an AI-generated ouroboros of shit... then what?
I will always find it interesting that gwynriels never question why azriel didn’t give the necklace straight to Gwyn if Gwynriel was going to be canon and endgame.
It did not have to go to Elain first(and describe elain perfectly btw) and Clotho did not have to be in that chapter at all. He did not have to give it to her instead.
They never once question the purpose of Clotho taking the necklace from him. Especially when Clotho is the name of one of the 3 Fates of greek mythology. Clotho wasn’t necessary in that scene unless she was playing a greater more symbolic role.
