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[garadinervi]

Denise Oliver-Velez (1947-2026)

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(plus: Black Women Radicals)

[barghestshadows]

It's time for the mdzs gang (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ first set is yiling patriarche, wei wuxian, lan wangji and lan xichen.

[higherentity]

[lesbian4lqg]

IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO WWX AND LSZ REMINDED ME OF AND I FIGURED IT OUT

[cerulienne]

(music note) xiao xingchen!

partna - chloe x halle Someone could just grab my hand Balance me while on my toes I stand ... Friendships never did me well I always fell under their spell I need a partner

chosen family - rina sawayama Tell me your story and I'll tell you mine I'm all ears, take your time, we've got all night Show me the rivers crossed, the mountains scaled Show me who made you walk all the way here 

the older one - the collection To find light in the darkest of rooms To find sun in the smallest of moons To find that everyone dies too soon So why not love the road to ruin?

[garadinervi]

(From the left) Iris Morales, Denise Oliver, Nydia Mercado, and Lulu Carreras, ca. 1970 [«Palante» – Latin revolutionary news service – Young Lords Party, Vol. 2, No. 12, Friday, September 25, 1970] [New York University Libraries, New York, NY. Black Women Radicals. Photo: Michael Abramson]

In "Machismo Will Never Be F*cking Revolutionary": On the Radical Rebelliousness of Denise Oliver-Velez, (interview), by Jaimee A. Swift, Black Women Radicals, 2020

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Denise Oliver-Velez from the Revolutionary Peoples' Communications Network in front of Reverend C.K. Steele's church during visit to Tallahassee, Florida, 1971 [Black Women Radicals. Photo: John Buckley. Public Domain]

In "Machismo Will Never Be F*cking Revolutionary”: On the Radical Rebelliousness of Denise Oliver-Velez, (interview), by Jaimee A. Swift, Black Women Radicals, 2020

[garadinervi]

Cleo Silvers (1946-2025)

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Silvers, Cleo Interview 1, February 21, 2007 / Silvers, Cleo Interview 2. March 12, 2007, Interview with the Bronx African American History Project, BAAHP Digital Archive at Fordham, Fordham University Library, Fordham University, New York, NY (pdf pt. 1 here, pdf pt. 2 here) (audio pt. 1 here and here, audio pt. 2 here)

"Genuine Struggle and Care": An Interview With Cleo Silvers, by Alondra Nelson, «American Journal of Public Health», Volume 106, No. 10, October 2016, pp. 1744-1748 (pdf here)

(image: "Lincoln Hospital Belongs to the People." New York City, 1970. From left to right: Dorothea Tillie, Cleo Silvers (seated), Pablo Guzman (seated), Juan Gonzalez (standing), Andrew Jackson (seated, face partially obscured), others unidentified. Photo: © Estate of Hiram Maristany)

Plus: Dope Is Death, (2020, documentary, 78 min), Directed by Mia Donovan

(cover image via the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and Public Health is Political)