This Omnivorous Soul, How Lusty

+ mostly book quotes and blaspheming +

[luntfontanne]

[transoptic]

Matthias Stom, Doubting Thomas (detail). 1640-1650.

[bookofshitposts]

It was [James Cook's] misunderstanding of the word nuutkah ('to turn around') that resulted in the name "Nootka" for the inlet that they entered and the people they encountered.

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Cook developed a short vocabulary of Native words and mistakenly assumed that they would be understood by people in the entire region. He was wrong about the uniformity of language in the region, but his presence nevertheless led to the creation of a trade language-Nootka Jargon-that later contributed to the pidgin used in the Lower Columbia. Examples of words from the west coast of Vancouver Island that wound up in Chinook Jargon are wik 'no, not', and wawa 'to speak, talk'.

"Linguistic Diversity in Oregon and Washington" by Edwin Battistella and David Pippin, in Northwest Voices: Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest

[bookofshitposts]

"As far as I'm concerned," she said, "there are only two kinds of Communists. Thinkers and doers. The thinkers are the ones who come up with all sorts of theories and grand ideas. The doers, well, they do everything else. They grow the food and they clean the house and they even fight the battles. Except they never get to write any of the books, now, do they? Not even the rules we're supposed to follow. 'Is that fair?' you might ask. Obviously, I'm not a thinker."

Forgiving Imelda Marcos by Nathan Go

[bookofshitposts]

When Indigenous peoples use the term nationhood, we aren't talking about nation states. We are talking about formations that respected and worked with different sovereignties over shared time and space. Giving up what you can so others might live. Again, this ethic of care.

It's the nation state as a delivery system for racial capitalism that's the problem. Racial capitalism requires borders and enclosures and vio-lence. It requires heteropatriarchy and transphobia.

It is possible to make worlds that connect to other worlds, places where self-determination doesn't threaten the very viability of the planet where we can live and work together. It is possible to make Nishnaabeg places where we govern ourselves without the sort of borders. It is possible for living things to move and migrate without destroying Nishnaabeg homelands. There are lots of people from different moments and intellectual traditions dreaming and thinking about this. There are people in every part of the world coming together and building pieces of this with each other. Indigenous peoples on every content hold communal experiences and theory about how to live and live well without police, prisons and armies, in societies where violence is unthinkable, without enclosures.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, interviewed by Matt Hern and Am Johal in O My Friends, There is no Friend

[bookofshitposts]

If you are alive or were recently alive on planet earth, then you are part of a deep network of relationships that exist outside of your own body and sphere of influence. You belong.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, interviewed by Matt Hern and Am Johal in O My Friends, There is no Friend

[bookofshitposts]

friendship is available for uptake as a commitment to being unfinished

Leela Gandhi, interviewed by Matt Hern and Am Johal in O My Friends, There is no Friend

[bookofshitposts]

The inevitable movement of politics is to do away once and for all the false division of beings who act and those who are acted upon. The violence and authoritarianisms that attempt to establish order are a symptom of the reactionary void and wound.

Matt Horn and Am Johal, O My Friends, There is no Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

[climbingthefloors]

[f0restnympho]

pull your boxers down we need to talk.

[bookofshitposts]

Is is our contention that our lived experiences of friendship might be able to provide some raw materials for thinking borderlessness. Friendship does not have to always be congenial or even friendly - it can be astringent and agonistic and malleable - but friendship is always voluntary, and thus always an exercise in agreement. We submit that any friendship, no matter its depth or breadth, is definitionally marked by a substantive concern for the other, which is the basis for the good relations that an ecological world requires.

Matt Hern and Am Johal, O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

[tothearkmoved]

Koi-Yamagata Station

[electricpurrs]

"I can’t wait to love you again tomorrow" by Gatito Sentimental

[enki2]

[bookofshitposts]

from "Sky Pillars" in Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic

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Untitled #1, 2011

Petrina Hicks

[mrsterlingeverything]

Wait this isnt gay sex this is working at my job