Soapbox Books + Zines

SoapBox Books + Zines is non-hierarchical, volunteer-run, not-for-profit community space located in Cincinnati that distributes alternative media, provides the community with access to information, and promotes independent and critical thinking. Welcome to our Tumblr page! We are located at 1415 Knowlton St, Cincinnati, OH 45223 Open hours: Mon & Thurs & Sat 4pm-8pm SoapBox is a program of The VG Gardens Collective at The Village Green

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Indian suffragettes, with Sophia Duleep Singh 2nd from left.

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women often “forgotten” by these white feminsts

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(Tiffany Sanders at the Clarence Darrow high-rises, 1993) 

In the first half of the 20th century, Chicago’s poor lived in privately owned tenements. Attempting to improve those often terrible conditions, the city built thousands of public housing units in modern high-rise apartment buildings from the 1940s-1960s. But in many places, they built them right on top of former slums.

These new housing projects accentuated the existing racial and class divides. Again attempting to fix what was broken, the city decided to demolish the system in the late ’90s.

The “Plan for Transformation” was to move all 16,800+ households in public housing out of the old buildings — and into better living conditions. In the end, only 56% of the original residents remained in the system. What happened?

Here’s the story, with photos by Patricia Evans.

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We shared a story about Chicago’s mixed-income housing plans, but it’s worth resurfacing this piece that focuses on the city’s history of public housing.

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First all-female mosque opens in Los Angeles

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Note that this is the first all-female masjid in America. There are many all-female masjids around the world.

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^ That is a very important point! For example, among the Chinese Muslim community (the Hui people), women are renowned for founding and running their own mosques - which also serve as schools - called nusi. Many nusi can be found in the city of Zhengzhou. 

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(solidarity reblog) i support female-only spaces! 

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"Trayvon Benjamin Martin would have turned 20 years old today. 

(February 5, 1995 - February 26, 2012)

Never forget” -Urban Cusp

Rest In Power

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R.I.P

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24 Hours with Norma Marin - CNNMoney

Norma Marin works part-time at two different jobs at McDonald's -- earning minimum wage at each. These are her time-stamped journal entries, which give a detailed look at her day.

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quote from Zinester Darci McFarland

win a whole stack of super awesome feminist zines HERE

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If you’re poor, the only way you’re likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you’re tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you’re the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth. So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.

Let’s Call Climate Change What It Really Is—Violence | Alternet (via guerrillamamamedicine)

 But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.

 But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.

 But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.

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The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.

Scott Woods (X)

he motherfucking dropped the truth.

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THAT’S THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR OWNING EVERYTHING

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this is a super important explanation to think about whenever you feel like telling someone that something isn’t racist because you don’t hate x person.

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I probably reblogged in the past, but here it is again in that case.

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Mic drop.

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Every time this shows up on my dashboard (which is like always, because it stays relevant) I get super excited that I know people as smart and awesome as Scott Woods.

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Patrick Leblanc’s vertical gardens are so lovely I could cry

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Images from a rally in remembrance of Eric Garner in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 4.

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It Stops Today (Dec/4-5/14): Coast to coast— in Seattle, DC, Oakland, Ferguson, Dallas, Philly, Boston, Phoenix, Chicago, NYC— tens of thousands protested police brutality in America. In short, they shut it down. Incredible. #staywoke #blacklivesmatter

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CINCINNATI, OH

THU DEC 4th - 5:00 PM

PIATT PARK 100 Garfield Place

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America’s justice system is racist. There is no other way to put it. From its racist policing built on profiling, to its war on drugs which dis-proportionally incarcerates black (and brown) people, to its sentencing laws that increase in severity if you are black, to the fact that a black man is killed by cops or vigilantes every 28 hours. It’s murderous and racist to its core. So when “the law” is the instrument of oppression, this leaves little recourse for communities like Ferguson. But the logic of oppression will always place the onus for civility on the victims of oppression, never itself.

“But they’re looting and burning down stores”: Debunking the Logic of Oppression in Ferguson | AmericaWakieWakie (via america-wakiewakie)

Reblogging because you all need to know this (in)justice system has NEVER been about fairness. Justice has never been a part of the equation, ever.

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