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So the state bails out banks and tells the polis to tighten up, claiming that the people are too expensive to be borne through their state, which can no longer afford their appetite for risk.

They are told that they should feel shame for having wanted more than they could bear responsibility for and are told that they should take satisfaction in ratcheting down their image of the good life and the pleasures to be had in the process of its production.

The affective orchestration of the crisis has required blaming the vulnerable for feeling vulnerable; not due only to a general precarity but also to the political fact that there is no longer an infrastructure for holding the public as a public. The public must become entrepreneurial individuals.

from ‘Affect and the Politics of Austerity: An Interview Exchange with Lauren Berlant’ Variant 39/40

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http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html

#reblogging 2012

I continue to believe that we hug the veil that says our situation in Britain is different, we’re different, the British are different. We hug that veil. I think at that time, my passionate plea was and still is, we have to rip that veil. We are in pain. We are in pain irrespective of whether we live in Britain, the United States, Trinidad, whatever. We are in pain because that history still haunts us. And we need to face it.

Altheia Jones-LeCointe, 2013

#altheia jones-lecointe #organised youth

notgoing

I’m on Tik Tok talking movies. If that is your thing, follow me: @pbpbbpbppb

#pavan bivigou #film

#cane river #horace b jenkins #film #tommye myrick

“Finding my practice was the single most important thing in my life. The message of my Buddhist practice is, 'Be courageous. You are exactly what is wanted. We’re all different.' I still struggle daily — that’s life. Everyone has scars from being told, “You’re less than.” I still struggle with a diminished sense of self-worth. Oppression is a characteristic of all societies and times. They say it takes seven generations to heal those traumas. The official end of slavery in America was 1866. My great-grandmother was the first generation after that, my grandmother was the second generation, and my father and mother were the third. Each generation makes incremental change. For example, being transgender is more and more considered a fact of life now and is openly discussed. That was impossible in the past. I hope for the next generation it will simply be something normal.”

—Beverly Glenn-Copeland

#beverly glenn-copeland

You are wanted! The universe wants you, because you are it!

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

#beverly glenn-copeland

atoubaa

Michele Wallace (1980)

ejakulation

Debra Shaw at Christian Dior Couture, S/S 1998

#happy easter

ceremonialized

Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.

it took me a nearly a year to write and edit Lunch Money and while the experience from first draft to publication was full of pain and confusion (not to mention a lot of paranoia and shame) i’m now on the other side of an event that corrupted my childhood and haunted me for years. this is a testament to my survival.

"We in the music industry, especially African-American people, need to know our worth. We need to know, as women, that we're important. I think the breakdown is when a woman doesn't know who she is and she settles for less. Check out your worth, because you're worth more than that."

—Dr. Mable John in 20 Feet from Stardom

#film #black women #dr mable john #the raelettes #20 feet from stardom

knithag

Emma Dupree, 1898-1996. Photos by Mary Anne McDonald.

“Emma Dupree was an herbalist and traditional healer (sometimes called a “granny woman”) in Falkland, Pitt County, North Carolina”

#Emma Dupree

thegiftedoneishere

Me in the theatre…

#probably my favourite scene

westindians

me wearing feben vemmenby in director jenn nkiru’s short film rebirth is necessary (2017)

costume design ib kamara

loneberry

You must then stop giving yourself pain by feeling that you failed somewhere. You have not failed. You have been failed, by history and events, and people over whom you had no control. Only after you understand this can you then go on to make the necessary alterations that will bring some purpose and value to your life; you must gain some control!

George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (via loneberry)

#george jackson #soledad brother