Rebecca Lindsay - Addy. Artist

Rebecca, 24. Artist/Writer. London, UK. Website Twitter

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The Bechdel Test

Alison Bechdel’s original 1985 Dykes To Watch Out For strip that became known as “The Bechdel Test.”

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point and shoot camera, ‘dreamland’ margate, uk.

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Daniel Boone recounted in his diary that after he and his men had destroyed one particular indian village, one little boy was still alive, though badly wounded and burned. 'The little boy was not even crying', Dan wrote. He said that when he returned to the village the next day, he and his men retrieved potatoes from the cellar, and the potatoes were perfectly cooked with the grease of burned indians. Later, the historians denied that we had potatoes or cellars, or even that we existed; it was just 'wilderness' that Dan'I and the guys conquered.

The Mystery of the Two Islands: The True Story of How Cuban Communists Gained Control of Trump Tower 1986, Jimmie Durham

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Le Musée du Jouet (The Toy Museum), Brussels, Belgium. 

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"the oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.”

 - audre lorde, “an open letter to mary daly”

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free PDF here.

[rlindsayaddy]

Survival Tactics,  2014, Mixed Media

 Rebecca Lindsay - Addy,

 Made during IdeasFromElse[W]here 

Writing reads:

I've been thinking 

how we built ourselves 

up from the shattered

bones. A 'tedious' 

ongoing war no

books were written

about. I've carried

slivers of it like 

scars, like armour.

And people will 

feed you their lines

as if they were

bandages, as if

you can be re-

written, after years

of desk indented

wrists, tied to the only

spot you felt able

to exist in. Survival

is a constant,

(sometimes), a con-

stant decision.

Recovering from

the wreckage,

but people will

try and drag you

down with history

unaware they are

even carrying it,

carelessly breaking

your reassembled 

back with it. 

[whos-afraid-of-postblack-ar-blog]

"I’m black. Now, let’s deal with the social fact and the fact of my stating it together."

Adrian Piper

My Calling Card (No.2)

ink and cardstock

1986-90

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Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks

outlaw culture - bell hooks

Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell

Sex, Power, and Consent - Anastasia Powell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde

Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory  - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey

The Disability Studies Reader

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 

Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge

  This blog also has a lot more.

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

[rlindsayaddy]

On the 26th at the Walthamstow Garden Party in Lloyds Park I performed as a #PeddlerOfIdeas for a twitter/instragram performance, with Sally Labern from the The Drawing Shed, in place of her usual collaborator Bobby Lloyd. 

Dressed all in black, (Wearing items printed with 'PEDDLER OF IDEAS') armed with sharpies and carboard, we explored the event, engaging and coaxing visitors to share their ideas with us (anoymous or not!) from the inane, jolly, to the more serious and political. Under not only our own hashtag but also #WalthamstowGardenParty meaning in between images of people enjoying cider and cakes and the like, people could also stumble across a wealth of ideas! Great fun.

the ideas went out via.:

The Drawing Shed's twitter and Sally Labern's Instagram

My Twitter and My instagram 

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(Cindy Sherman, Untitled #397, 2000. Chromogenic color print; 91.4x61cm)

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When I ask what new ideas or emotions he thinks the film offers, he admits, "I don't know. I was just interested in telling the truth by visualising it. Visualisation of this narrative hasn't been done like this before, and I think that's the thing. I mean, some images have never been seen before. I needed to see them. It's very important. I think that's why cinema's so powerful.

Steve McQueen, speaking about '12 Years A Slave' in The Guardian

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Moyra Davey, Trust Me (detail), 2011

[rlindsayaddy]

Documenting something daily always feels like madness to me. But here I go...

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

American newspapers just seizing the opportunity to have a little fun with slavery. Totally accidental and/or harmless. In other news: microaggressions are common verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile or negative slights to marginalized groups. (via Donovon X Ramsey)

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What do you think? Catchy headlines or microaggressions? 

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The last two I could write off as just lazy editing

The first two? Motherfuckers playing games

[zuky]

All of them are intended to demean. You could shorten the film title to “12 Years” just as easily and actually more descriptively, but throwing the word “Slave” around with “master” and pictures of Lupita Nyong’o is a way of re-emphasizing how US society views Black people.

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TEN REASONS WHY TEENAGE WOMEN ARE AMAZING for Zanna

1. Even our grammar is criminal. We like, have imperfections, speak a finite language, but omg, that language is just as valid as an English professor’s literary jargon but through the outpouring of daily interactions and “girl talk” we like, mess up.  Maybe we have pauses. Maybe we stutter. Maybe we’re afraid of what we have to say of the power hiding behind our own tongue and the fear of disappointment that comes after

Shut down and cordoned off our language is a troublemaker doesn’t quite fit the picture0frame of women speaking delicately, quietly no passion just gentle thought. 

I tear down  "please refrain from using the word "like"" stickers from my school hallways because assimilation  is just another step towards repression and language evolves. We evolved with it.

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And why’s Janis Joplin’s life read as a downward spiral into self-destruction? Everything she did is filtered through her death. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, River Phoenix all suicided too but we see their deaths as aftermaths of lives that went too far. But let a girl choose death - Janis Joplin, Simone Weil - and death becomes her definition, the outcome of her “problems.” To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological. No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope’s turned back on her. Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form. Dear Dick, I want to make the world more interesting than my problems. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.

Chris Kraus, I Love Dick, p196 (via angstravaganza)