litany for survival

thatonesuheirhammad: yslove 73

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:40 -0400

yslove 73

"In some sense, the word enlightenment is misleading. It is no more about the light than the dark...."

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:56:07 -0400

“In some sense, the word enlightenment is misleading. It is no more about the light than the dark. Resisting the shadow just makes it darker. It is not about becoming continuously blissful. It is about becoming more authentic, more genuinely here. It is about holding the light & the shadow all at once. Perhaps we should call the ultimate goal enrealment—the quest to live in all aspects of reality at once.”

- Jeff Brown (via venuschild)

right? its our fear, not the darkness, that is the problem

afrodiaspores: JBC, Ochún, ca. 2011. As Mary Cuthrell Curry put...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:31:44 -0400

afrodiaspores:

JBC, Ochún, ca. 2011. As Mary Cuthrell Curry put it in Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community:

She is the owner of gold and is therefore extremely wealthy. She is the Orisha who holds her mirror (one of her major symbols) up to a person and demands that there be love for what is seen. She wants a person to love him/herself as she does herself. Her other major symbols have to do with connection. She has needles with which it is said she sews society together. More recently she has taken to sewing machines…

fuckyeablackart: Water Spirit Healing by Bianca Dorsey:: Check...

Sun, 12 May 2013 07:59:02 -0400

fuckyeablackart:

Water Spirit Healing by Bianca Dorsey
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blackpoemusic: Things that do not exist are more beautiful. By...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:30:41 -0400

blackpoemusic:

Things that do not exist are more beautiful.

By Manoel de Barros

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:01:24 -0400

queennubian: wahaladey: photobooth. YES DAMMIT! black girl...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:30:53 -0400

queennubian:

wahaladey:

photobooth.

YES DAMMIT!

black girl perfection

dynamicafrica: Photos of South African women protesting in the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:01:25 -0400

dynamicafrica:

Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.

1980s.

Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:30:47 -0400

"Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:36:27 -0400

“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

- Hermann Hesse (via cosmicthreads)

"We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are! Some of us are still catching up to what we..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:36:49 -0400

“

We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are!
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become storytellers. We came as carriers of the stories we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become writers, dancers, musicians, helpers, peacemakers. We came as such. We are!
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not learn to Love in this sense. We came as Love. We are Love! ♥ Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.

”

- ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes (via earthmoonlotus)

Feminist Resources

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:58:41 -0400

Feminist Resources:

farahjoon:

Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Aurora Levins Morales’s Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood

bell hooks’ Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Combahee River Collective Statement

Dorothy Allison’s A Question of Class

Judith Butler documentary

Leslie Feinberg’s We Are All Works in Progress

Paula Gunn Allen’s Who is Your Mother?: Red Roots of White Feminism

R.W. Connell’s The Social Organization of Masculinity

Sandra Lee Bartky’s Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power

Sandra Cisneros’s Guadalupe the Sex Goddess

Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman?

Susan Bordo’s The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity

spread love

"The goal of colonialism is not just to kill colonized peoples, but to destroy their sense of being..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:20:27 -0400

“The goal of colonialism is not just to kill colonized peoples, but to destroy their sense of being people. It is through sexual violence that a colonizing group attempts to render a colonized people as inherently rapable, their lands inherently invadable, and their resources inherently extractable.”

- Heteropatriarchy, A Building Block of Empire — Andrea Smith (via whitedenial-ontrial)

yaaaaassssssss

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:40:44 -0400

yaaaaassssssss

arialv: I cannot get over how beautiful these images are.

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:01:34 -0400

arialv:

I cannot get over how beautiful these images are.

everyday

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:59:47 -0400

everyday

aprill-showers: shoonwhy me

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:18:28 -0400

aprill-showers:

shoonwhy

elisamexica: reclaimingthelatinatag: blackpoemusic: Frida by...

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:56:22 -0400

elisamexica:

reclaimingthelatinatag:

blackpoemusic:

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan.

We can’t get enough of Omar Victor Diop today

Senegal

"Nothing enrages the American injustice system more than an escaped slave. When Harriet Tubman was..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:25:00 -0400

“Nothing enrages the American injustice system more than an escaped slave. When Harriet Tubman was liberating Black people from institutionalized genocide, rape and servitude, the state offered a reward of $40,000 to any bounty hunter who could bring her to “justice.” And if you think $40,000 goes a long way now, imagine what it did in 1875. Tubman was so vigorously desired by the state, not only because she broke the laws of chattel slavery (she was legally a thief, who ran away with thousands of dollars worth of what they considered to be stolen property), but also because she represented a revolutionary ideology. In many ways, her impact on the minds, hearts and souls of African American people was more damaging to the system of enslavement than the hundreds of African people that she emancipated physically. Same bed, new sheets.

Former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, Assata Shakur is still being aggressively perused by her former captors, over three decades after her escape from prison. Utilizing the same tactics as their slave holding predecessors, the New Jersey Police and U.S. Justice Department offered a $1,000,000 reward for her capture in 2005 - the largest reward placed on an individual in the history of New Jersey. Like Tubman, Shakur is being hunted not only for her alleged crimes against the state of New Jersey, but also because of her unwavering revolutionary opposition to imperialism and injustice.”

- President Obama Asked To Extradite Assata Shakur

This article is from 2009 but these words are extremely relevant today.

(via theraceproblem)

Watch out for them drones, Assata. <3

(via nezua)

"Just as you must come through a woman’s womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:40:30 -0400

“Just as you must come through a woman’s womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.”

- RZA - The Tao of Wu (via awakeningapril)