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Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, [Paper delivered at the Modern Language Association’s “Lesbian and Literature Panel,” Chicago, IL, December 28, 1977. First published in «Sinister Wisdom» 6, 1978, and The Cancer Journals, Spinsters, Ink, San Francisco, CA, 1980]; in Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider. Essays and speeches, The Crossing Press, Trumansburg, NY, 1984, pp. 40-44 (pdf here) [Cover Design by Mary A. Scott. Cover photograph by Salimah Ali]

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R.I.P. (Rest in PDFs), Part II

in progress …

Part I (A-M) is here.

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Naomi Murakawa, The origins of the carceral crisis: Racial order as “law and order” in postwar American politics

Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero. Translated by Sherif Hatata.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, The Language of African Literature

Nicholas Abraham, Notes on the Phantom: A Complement to Freud’s Metapsychology

Occupy Poetics. Curated by Thom Donovan

ON Contemporary Practice PDF Archive

Osip Mandelstam, The Noise of Time. Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown.

Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropofago (Cannibal Manifesto). English translation by Leslie Bary.

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Patrick Wolfe, Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native

Pëtr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Phil Cordelli, New Wave

Power of Words Handbook: A Guide to Language about Japanese Americans in World War II: Understanding Euphemisms and Preferred Terminology

Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right To Move

Richard Powell, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century

Rizvana Bradley, Aesthetic Inhumanisms: Toward an Erotics of Otherworlding

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, from CEDE; [Truesse, Unknown Worker, Charles]; Chaos and Rectification

Roberto Tejada, In Relation: The Poetics and Politics of Cuba’s Generation-80

Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Roger Caillois, Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia

Roland Barthes, Image Music Text. Translated by Stephen Heath.

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse. Translated by Richard Howard.

Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Translated by Annette Lavers.

Roland Barthes, The Neutral. Translated by Rosalind E. Krauss and Denis Hollier.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text. Translated by Richard Miller.

Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes. Translated by Richard Howard.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the prologue (The Bus), the introduction, and Chapter 2 (The California Political Economy), of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Saidiya Hartman, The Plot of Her Undoing (Notes on Feminisms)

Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman and Frank B. Wilderson, III, The Position of the Unthought: An Interview

Saniyya Saleh, Seven Poems. Various translators

Sarith Peou, Corpse Watching

S*an D. Henry-Smith, Flotsam Suite

Simone Browne, Introduction, and Other Dark Matters; Notes on Surveillance Studies; Branding Blackness (from Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness)

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace. Translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr

Simone Weil, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force. Translated by Mary McCarthy

Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty. Translated by Arthur Wills and John Petrie

Solidarity Texts: Radiant Re-Sisters

Sophia Terazawa, I Am Not A War

Sora Han, Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law

#StandingRockSyllabus, compiled by NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

Steve Biko, Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity

Sukoon Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 2, Winter 2017

Susan Briante, Neotropics: A Romance in Field Notes

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

Suzanne Césaire, 1943: Surrealism and Us; The Great Camouflage (from The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945)

Sylvia Wynter, “No Humans Involved:” An Open Letter to My Colleagues

Tamara K. Nopper, The Wages of Non-Blackness: Contemporary Immigrant Rights and Discourses of Character, Productivity, and Value

Tavia Nyong’o, Racial Kitsch and Black Performance

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. (eds. Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa)

Thom Donovan, “In The Dirt of the Line”: On Bhanu Kapil’s Intense Autobiography

Tiqqun, Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

Tongo Eisen-Martin, Cut A Hand From A Hand

Toni Morrison, Memory, Creation, and Writing

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Documentary Is/Not a Name

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Lovecidal: Walking With the Disappeared

Trinh T. Minh-ha, The Walk of Multiplicity

Võ Nguyên Giáp, People’s War, People’s Army

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project. Translated from the German by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction

We Charge Genocide Again! A Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm: Report on the 2012 Extrajudicial Killings of 313 Black People by Police, Security Guards and Vigilantes. Prepared by Tongo Eisen-Martin

Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

Wendy Trevino, Brazilian Is Not A Race

Wendy Trevino, narrative

Will Alexander & Janice Lee, The Transparent As Witness

Yanara Friedland, Abraq ad Habra: I will create as I speak

Ye Mimi, eleven poems

Yerbamala Collective, Our Vendetta: Witches vs Fascists

You Can’t Shoot Us All: On the Oscar Grant Rebellions

Yūgen, edited by LeRoi Jones & Hettie Cohen (1958-1962), #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Yuri Kochiyama, The Impact of Malcolm X on Asian-American Politics and Activism

Yuri Kochiyama, Then Came the War

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“If we think of hope as a spiritual concept- a concept that always escapes confinement within scientific discourse- then we can suggest that hope constitutes a “spiritual currency” that we are given as an inheritance to invest in various aspects of existence. The issue, however, is that there is often a compulsory investment of this spiritual substance in the political. This is the forced destination of hope- it must end up in the political, and cannot exist outside of it (or any existence of hope “outside” the political subverts, compromises, and destroys hope itself. Like placing a fish out of water. Is it as if hope only has intelligibility and efficacy within and through the Political.) Put differently, the politics of hope posits that one must have a politics in order to have hope; Politics is the natural habitat of hope itself.”

— Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope, Calvin Warren (8)

[lesbianherstorian]

“THE SOFTNESS OF MOONLIGHT, THE STRENGTH OF THE SUN” at the first national march on washington for lesbian and gay rights, photographed by larry butler, october 1979

[lysergicfunk]

[lesbianartandartists]

Tee Corinne, from Intimacies (2001)

[personaldarchives]

strip series from iphone

[hermittttt]

[womans-day]

[arabellesicardi]

[bananapeppers]

What is it with lesbians and home? Gone home fun home whats next? My home is now a lesbian im afraid if i stay near a home too long i too will become a lesbian but i think its too late

anonymous message to @closet-keys

1. Gwen Shockey, Lavender Scissors and Red Houses (2016). — Lesbian Art and Artists

2. Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting (1993). — Guggenheim

3. text reads “term: family of origin / term: chosen family”.

4. Catherine Opie, Eleanor & Megan, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1998) from her series Domestic (1995–1998). — Regen Projects

5. Catherine Opie, Sunday Morning Breakfast (2004) from her series In and Around Home (2004–2005). — Guggenheim

6. text from Barbara Smith, 1989, “A Press of Our Own Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press”, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 10 (3):11–13, doi: 10.2307/3346433. inset: photo by JEB (Joan E. Biren) of (L–R) Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, and hattie gossett, four of the cofounders of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, representing their imprint at the second Women in Print Conference, Washington, DC (October 1–4, 1981). — Pinterest

7. from part five of Judy Grahn’s poem A Woman is Talking to Death (1974). you can view/download the scanned book here and access the poem in text format at Poets.org.

8. Tammy Rae Carland, Untitled (Lesbian Bed #4) from her series Lesbian Beds (2002). — artist’s site

9. Marsha Wetzel photographed by Lyndon French on behalf of the New York Times for Mark Miller’s November 18, 2016 article “No Rest at Rest Home: Fighting Bias Against Gays and Lesbians”.

10. (Noel) Phyllis Birkby, lesbian, architect, founder of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1974–1981), in undated photo. — Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College

overflowing:

Erin Blakemore. 2016. “The Turn-of-the-Century Lesbians Who Founded the Field of Home Ec”. JSTOR Daily, December 30.

Tammy Rae Carland’s series Keeping House (1999).

photos from Dusty Lombardo’s series Butch Interiors (2004).

etc.

what are your favorite statements/works by lesbians about “home”/domesticity? what does “home”/domesticity conjure up for you?

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never forget…

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Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?

Investigating the undying tyranny of terrazzo.

It is hard to imagine ourselves growing old — to imagine the time, nearly upon us already, when “millennial” no longer means “young.” Likewise, it is hard to imagine how the millennial aesthetic will age. Its blank, clean surfaces aspire to a world without clutter or scuffs, unmarked by the passage of time. In this aspiration, the millennial aesthetic is somewhat democratic — anything can be new, for a while. It is a style that looks, in its ideal state, like a purchase.

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changed me

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I ATE A BIG BAG OF FACTORY REJECT SEEDS UNTIL A HEALTHY FLOWER UNFURLED IN MY CHEST ...

I MISTOOK THE SENSATION FOR LOVE AND DIED.

[artlgbt]

MAKING A WAY: LESBIANS OUT FRONT Archene Turner and Lynn Walker share a sweet moment in the backyard of their home in Atlanta, Georgia. 1987. Photographs by JEB (Joan E. Biren)

[women-loving-art]

Adrienne Rich, from Twenty-One Love Poems (VIII)