May 09 Reblogged
When Obama endorsed same-sex marriage…
… I knew we’d still have a tough fight ahead of us, but whatevs:
Apr 26 Reblogged
I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was hoping to go to Zimbabwe, and felt that she could help women there by advising them how to organize. The Black women in the audience gasped in astonishment. Here was someone scarcely past girlhood, who had just started university and had never fought a war in her life. She was planning to go to Africa to teach female veterans of a liberation struggle how to organize! This is the kind of arrogant, if not absurd attitude we encounter repeatedly. It makes one think: Better the distant armchair anthropologists than these ‘sisters’.
Mar 03 Reblogged
<p>SON MY CAT THINKS HE CAN LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR FREE AND NOT EVEN TRY TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE AND HE STILL COMPLAINING ALL DAY AND STEALING MY BED (NOT MY JOB THO) WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT</p> — Anonymous
Haha, this is my new favorite anonymous person.
Feb 12 Reblogged
Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
Jan 21 Reblogged
Fuck No, Hugo Schwyzer: reflections on my feminism, as inspired by the recent hugo schwyzer bullshit →
My feminism is not about Being A Feminist; my feminism is not about the importance of maintaining a feminist identity. My feminism is about gender as a lens through which to look at the political sphere. One lens of many. My feminism is about taking action inspired by a deep,…
Jan 19 Reblogged
Before Tuskegee, there was Bessie.
The world’s first licensed Black pilot. And, the first female pilot of African American descent.
“Brave Bessie”, as she was sometimes called, grew up on her parents farm along with her 12 siblings were she, from the age of 6, attended a school that was specifically for African American children. Her father left the family in 1901 hoping to have a better life in Oklahoma. Bessie worked on cotton fields with school to save up for the Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Langston.
After the first semester she had to return home because of financial difficulties. When she was 23, she moved to Chicago to live with her brother and found a job as a manicurist. She knew that this was not what she wanted to do. When she heard the stories of French the female pilots De Laroche, Marvingt and Dutrieu, her became interested in becoming an aviator herself.
In every flight school she applied, Bessie was refused entry because she was either African American or a woman, or both. She started taking French lessons in Chicago and in November traveled to Paris to enroll in the École d’Aviation des Frères Caudon in Le Crotoy. In only 7 months she was the first black woman to complete an aviation pilot’s license. After realizing that the best way to make money as an aviator was by flying in the air shows, she took 2 more months of flight lessons near Paris and became a media sensation in the states where she was introduced as “Queen Bessie”.
(via aviation geeks)
Jan 13 Reblogged
Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece →
An abridged list, in no particular order.
- Edmund Wilson
- poststructuralism
- the Situationists
- “extrainstitutional intellectualism”
- bourbon
- “proletarian meta-narrative”
- the Lost Generation
- Cornell
- Sacre Coeur
- Jonathan Lethem
- The Paris Review
- paradigm
- Jacques Derrida
- French…
