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How being labelled biracial ends up showing up the whole concept of race for what it is: an invention that doesn't really help to define people.

Becoming a header image for a Vice article definitely set the tone for the end of 2016 and for what is to come in 2017 - Issue 2 coming soon :)

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On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

[Image: from the Black Community Survival Conference, DeFremery (locally known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton) Park, Oakland, CA, March 29, 1972. I first encountered this image via Alondra Nelson’s brilliant book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.]

“If I were president, I would solve this so-called welfare crisis in a minute and go a long way toward liberating every woman. I’d just issue a proclamation that ‘women’s’ work is real work.” - Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare Is a Women’s Issue.”

"The modern world hates to see black folks resting.“ - Lewis Gordon, ”African American Philosophy, Race, and the Geography of Reason.“

Part One here.

This post is an experiment. It attempts to find a new route to the question of what it means to politicize Audre Lorde’s legacy. Its search is partly in response to what I described in part 1 as the tendency in some cases to deify Lorde by extracting her from the political context in which she lived, or by reducing her to a set of pithy (if brilliant) quotations, or by invoking her as an unqualified paragon of black women’s resilience. In attempting to route the conversation differently, my strategy is to try and glimpse Lorde through an archive that is not of her published writings but of a set of struggles and contexts that affirm dimensions of her humanity and her work that are too rarely emphasized—her struggles with health and wellness, her status as worker, her vulnerability to the very discourses that demand that she be seen as powerful. Doing this means following a route that may, to some, seem rather circuitous. I can only hope that by the end, those divergences will make some sense.

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All is Full of Love- Bjork

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The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.

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examine your intentions. don’t move, why are you here? is your anger self righteous or misdirected? are you holding yourself accountable? what are the consequences of your actions? are your feelings facts, are they a tool for you to win an argument? are your actions consistent with the love you say you have for another? what does love mean to you? is your language mindful of another’s illnesses and traumas? do you respect another’s autonomy and critical thinking skills? are your emotions enriching this conversation or damaging it?

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I finally broke up with my boyfriend. I feel alive

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When a child is punished for their honesty, they begin to lie.

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This woman confronts racism in the funniest way possible.

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“She’s a whore.” Madhuri Dixit as Chandramukhi // Devdas (2002)

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Are the questions you’re asking aligned with the questions the people you are studying are asking about their own integrity and well being and futurity? Are your politics bigger than the skirmishes you are asked to enter and integritist enough to be enlarged by them? Have you made space for more to enter into generous capacious space? Have you worked to build foundations for something new, useful and beautiful on otherwise dry and fallow fields?

Jafari Allen reflecting on the kinds of questions Cathy Cohen’s work poses to researchers (via ibik23)