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EXTRUDE//

Day 390

1010ll

wnq-writers

I wanted to escape but then I realised you can’t run away from your own thoughts.

words-from-her-broken-soul (via wnq-writers)

what--inspires--me

magictransistor

Carlos Mérida. Dance of the Pascolas, Michoacán. 1947.

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tverdlofi

fullpraxisnow

#WouldYouBeWithHer

“White women’s feminisms still center around equality…. Black women’s feminisms demand justice. There is a difference. One kind of feminism focuses on the policies that will help women integrate fully into the existing American system. The other recognizes the fundamental flaws in the system and seeks its complete and total transformation.”

– Brittney Cooper | Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women

fullpraxisnow

@unrealcityusa said: I mean, would you prefer Trump? Hillary sucks, but while we fight for systematic change at the grassroots level the reality is that one of either Trump or Clinton will become our President come November, and we’re being dishonest to our comrades of color, our Islamic comrades, our LGBTQI comrades to act as if the two are equivalent. It requires tremendous privilege to look at the two and go “yup, they both are pretty much equally bad.

Lesser evilism doesn’t fly with me. Trump isn’t worse than Clinton anymore than Clinton is worse than Trump. This is not to say they are “equally” as bad as much as it acknowledges how uniquely bad each of them is. We do something sinister when we use the language of equality to describe oppression. By introducing a weighing mechanism – this is, after all, what using the word equal does by invoking imagery of a balancing scale – we posit that somehow we can quantify the misery Clinton has wrought upon the world through her neoliberal imperial polices and pit it against the aggregated harm of Trumps xenophobic rhetoric and capitalist exploitation. Of course, that’s preposterous.

And yet, the moral gymnastics of trying to accomplish this comparison DOES in fact have material consequences, usually in the form of a dichotomy: American lives versus non-American lives. In that scenario, the decision is not just a dichotomy, it is a hierarchy too, because to liberals, progressives, and conservatives American lives ALWAYS matter more. You are right to point out privilege, because it is an enormous privilege for Americans to hide behind the loosely constructed concern for our comrades of color in America, our Islamic comrades in America, and our LGBTQIA comrades in America while playing Russian roulette with our non-American comrades of the similar strips.