#emma dabiri

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Emma Dabiri by Sane Seven

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Emma Dabiri by Sane Seven

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{20.06.23}

I read Kindred again... I can't get enough of Octavia Butler, she really is one of the greatest writers of all time, in my opinion. I'm working on collecting all of her books!

Don't Touch My Hair has been on my to read list for a while now, as soon as I saw the library had the audiobook I had to get it... even though I really should be working through the masses of books I have at home...

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"As the rich get richer, the rest of us will be left in increasingly precarious situations. In the global recession that is upon us, the powerful will double down on their control of state and cultural apparatus. They will be determined to repress or to co-opt the tremulous expressions of resistance that are gaining volume as the people rise up against death.

The issue of co-option is pertinent; our articulations of dissent too often mirror the parameters of our oppression, reproducing oppressive systems, unwittingly reinforcing them, or attempting to reverse them, or indeed 'diverse' them. To make them more 'inclusive' when in truth, they need to dissolve.

Bayo Akomolafe describes our current system as replication of the slave ship, complete with the various levels that existed on board. In actual slave ships, the captured Africans were chained in the bottom, in the dark, dank hold, with the European slavers on the top deck living it up in the fresh air. Yet although they were on different levels, and as such had radically different experiences of the ship, they were all still aboard a vessel of destruction.

Akomolafe says that 'inclusion' today can be understood as access to the top deck of the slave ship. Inclusion is access to power in a system that is ultimately a tool of destruction. It is not enough to make exploitative systems more inclusive.

Do we want to get on the top deck, or do we want to destroy the goddamned ship?"

-- Emma Dabiri, author of What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition on The Blindboy Podcast, 31/3/21

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Quote of the Day - February 8 , 2022

Quote of the Day – February 8 , 2022

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tagged by @kiklayne Thank you so much :)

favourite colour: Maroon

last song: Miley Cyrus - cover of Zombie (OBSESSED WITH IT)

last movie: The Personal History of David Copperfield and it just further reaffirmed my love of  Dev Patel

last show (completed): Succession (LOVED IT)

currently reading: Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri

currently watching: nothing, I just finished Succession and I really don’t want to start another series...think will wait it out till This Is Us returns next week,  and The Crown

tea or coffee: Tea and mostly, always Tea, but sometimes coffee for a treat :L

tagging:    @admiralheywood @hadeswearsprada  @head-full-of-things @aplacebythewater  @sarah1281-takethree and whoever would like to do it :)