Divine Discontent

I'm Cassidy. She/her. Saddle tramp on Turtle Island. Author. Farmer. Abolitionist. Creative. Constantly learning. I read a lot about revolutionary history and labor struggles. I collect vinyl. I've been here since 2010. 30 something. Tiocfaidh ár lá ❤️‍🔥

[a-realclassact]

Revolutionary Reads

Here’s a list (consistently updated) of what I’ve personally read and would recommend:

Black Radical Tradition

Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton

Assata - Assata Shakur

By Any Means Necessary - Malcolm X

Blood In My Eye - George Jackson

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete - Angela Davis

Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

Let This Radicalize You - Mariame Kaba

We Do This Till We Free Us - Mariame Kaba

History

Settlers - J Sakai

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

An Indigenous People's History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexivich

Fiction

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beloved - Toni Morrison

The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin

Parable of the Sower and Talents both by Octavia Butler

Kindred - Octavia Butler

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Classics

The Principles of Communism - Frederich Engles

Why Socialism - Albert Einstein

The Proletarian’s Pocketbook - Various Authors

Socialism Utopian and Scientific - Frederich Engles

The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin *note* this has a chapter on “savages” that is embarrassingly out of date, keep in mind this was published in 1902

What Is To Be Done? - VI Lenin

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles

Marx’s Capital Illustrated - David Smith

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Black Shirts and Reds - Michael Parenti

State and Revolution - VI Lenin

Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara

Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord

Che Guevara Speaks

Combat Liberalism - Mao Zedong

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State - Frederick Engles *same notes as Kropotkin above, out of date language using, “savage”

Colonization

Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano

Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts - Jules Marchal

CIA Mass Murder and Coups

The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins

Indigenous

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer

Becoming Kin - Patty Krawec

Labor

The Long Deep Grudge - Toni Gilpin

Class War USA - Brandon Weber

Education

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

Gender

Whipping Girl - Julia Serano

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment - Matrix

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooks

Self Care

Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Youth Liberation

We Grow the World Together - Multiple Authors

Palestine

Apartheid Israel - Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs

On Antisemitism - Jewish Voice for Peace

Except for Palestine - Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick

The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi

Light in Gaza - Various Authors

Poetry

The Collected Poems of - Audre Lorde

Poems 1968-2020 - Nikki Giovanni

Post Colonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz

The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On - Franny Choi

Hustling Verse - Various Authors

Blood Orange - Yaffa

Ecology

Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard

Gathering Moss - Robin Wall-Kimmerer

Zapatistas

Our Word is Our Weapon - Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

[a-realclassact]

[kyra45]

Hey everyone! Before there’s mass panic over this, people can now see what posts you’re commented on when viewing your blog. You can toggle this to private but I haven’t seen a specific switch so it may be based on blog visibility? Either way keep in mind posts are public and so is anything you say.

Basically it just shows posts you commented on and what you commented with.

Saying this before anyone starts making angry posts to get attention and cause panic.

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Update! You can toggle these by the replies tab in settings per account! It’s listed as ‘share comments’.

[calleido]

[a-realclassact]

Also why are BOTH of my hands numb from carpal tunnel like

[parkchanwoohoo]

You read Wretched of the Earth and how the colonizer has PTSD from torturing the colonized and the former has a panic attack upon seeing a former victim while the latter desperately tries to kill himself to avoid recapture and I think it's right to ask: Am I really supposed to pity the former?

[Speaking slowly, gently, as though trying not to scare a startled horse] Now. Consider. The US military

[parkchanwoohoo]

To be clear I am not saying Fanon is attempting to elicit sympathy for the colonizer. I mean "Am I supposed to feel sorry for them" in an aghast way because the colonizer, who is suffering, feels he deserves sympathy. You see it again and again, all throughout history, and even now people complain about how traumatized they are from murdering civilians. How even in the end, in their eyes, the true victim is the perpetrator who lives rather than the dead person who is "at peace." As though any number of extenuating personal circumstances is supposed to make your guilt weigh more than the actual harms other people have experienced at your hands. As though people overseas wouldn't also like to go to college, would like to afford a house, would like to escape poverty. It's infuriating!

[a-realclassact]

Finally in the “my back hurts, I’m concerned about my back” stage of life

[ransomnote]

my personal argument for open borders is really simple it just boils down to "i believe restricting human movement and barring certain people from certain places on this earth is a human rights violation"

[ransomnote]

i mean this. everyone should be able to walk freely between mexico and the united states, fuck an ID, fuck a passport, fuck a visa. it's land, continuous, uninterrupted land. the soil on one side of the fense has the same geologic makeup of the soil on the other. we drew this invisible line in the sand, we can wipe it away with our feet together. it is well past time the world organizes en masse for our freedom of movement.

[a-realclassact]

From Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

[museenkuss]

I do love ~70s softcore b-movie horror flicks with unnecessary nudity where it's made so obvious that the beautiful woman has a bush. I wish we would bring that back.

[museenkuss]

A woman submerged in water (bathtub, ocean…), maybe swimming, and the dark triangle of her bush is just present against her nude body. The ever-loved transparent gowns and lingerie, showing soft areolas, shimmering outlines, and, a lovely contrast, clearly visible under the shifting fabric, her bush. A body flashing past, under a dress or coat etc, a tease, but, there, for a moment, the sight of her bush.

I know these films aren’t great — the actresses are usually very young and promote a very specific ideal of beauty. But this little detail is so refreshing and so lovely. A reminder of a time when this aspect of the female body was a celebrated moment of sensuality. I miss it.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[a-realclassact]

Power washing Princess

[a-realclassact]

One of the only bands who can’t find a bad melody and lyrics are secondary

Like you could throw them on shuffle and not be unhappy once

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[1000-life-hacks]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[polyamorouspunk]

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

[nichasuwus]

@isuggestrevolution

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest ending slavery

[a-realclassact]

From Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos