February 2010
bonesarecoralmade:
Envisioning my 24-year-old partner Robinson—who runs an orphanage and medical clinic on this landfill-plantation of 300,000 along the capital’s coastline—rescuing the orphans that he cares for is what keeps my heart beating. But if there is no longer a Robinson? For me and the thousands of Cite Soleil residents that he serves on a daily basis that would be an enormous loss,...
January 2010
“Personally, I would rather listen to hip-hop than to Lawrence Welk, and prefer...”
– ROROTOKO :: Trysh Travis on her book The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey :: Cutting-edge Intellectual Nonfiction through In-depth Author Interviews
“This triptych of images is important to me for two reasons. The image of “the...”
– ROROTOKO :: Trysh Travis on her book The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey :: Cutting-edge Intellectual Nonfiction through In-depth Author Interviews
“Saying the US and Europe “have no moral authority” to control the aid going to...”
– Somali Pirates Will Donate Booty to Haiti « Repeating Islands
“…We uphold that Haitian children have a right to a family and a history that is their own and that Haitians themselves have a right to determine what happens to their own children. We resist the racist, colonialist mentality that positions the Western nuclear family as superior to other conceptions of family, and we seek to challenge those who abuse the phrase “Every child deserves a family” to...
INMATES AND GUARDS JOIN TOGETHER FOR HAITIAN... →
Lisa Allen-Agostini on Shell, by Olive Senior →
bonesarecoralmade:
The great debate over slavery reparations continues with United States Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama rejecting the notion that the New World descendants of enslaved Africans should be compensated for the hardships endured in African chattel slavery. “I have said in the past — and I’ll repeat again — that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in...
“Anarcha was an African American slave woman. She was one of the seventy-five...”
– Anarcha The Mother of Gynocology (via guerrillamamamedicine)
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Eric Gamalinda, Subterranean
Let me be the first to say that I know the name for everything and if I don’t I’ll make it up: dukkha, naufragio, talinghaga. Just like the young whose hearts give no shame, I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love. I fear none of us will last long enough to prove what I’ve always suspected, that the sky is a...
“One thing you find running through Haitian music throughout its history is a...”
– Interview: Elizabeth McAlister
The Popular Podcast #193: Lifefucking kt shorb |... →
bonesarecoralmade:
Civil society organisations have a role - to contest the ideological normalisation of oppressive sexualities and genders. This requires disrupting gender norms and rendering legitimate sexual and gender diversity visible. If we really want to address women’s structural discrimination we must confront male entitlement.
If we aim to challenge sexual violence against lesbians...
And, not for the last time, I have to kill the... →
(via bonesarecoralmade)
“The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information...”
– Program on Liberation Technology - FSI Stanford
From: Concerned Anthropologists <nca.signatures@gmail.com> To: Concerned Anthropologists <nca.signatures@gmail.com> Dear Fellow Anthropologists, The US Congress is currently evaluating and considering the expansion of the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) program, in which anthropologists have been recruited to assist with counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and...
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“Settlers are not migrants. They come to stay. Settlers are more than just...”
– about this blog « settler colonial studies
“Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once said: “I know he regards me as a dangerous...”
– Howard Zinn Dead, Author Of ‘People’s History Of The United States’ Died At 87
“seems jesus
& his big daddy
both white men / to me
else what the hell do...”
– “Earthquake in Haiti” by Maxine Beneba Clarke (via salmonrojo)
“Stirner cannot eat without at the same time eating for the sake of his stomach....”
– Karl Marx (1845) “On Desire and the Conditions of Life”, The German Ideology. (via beetx)
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well....”
– Susan Polis Schutz (via justbesplendid) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
on academia and activism
guerrillamamamedicine:
the thing is i know that a lot of academics are also activists and vice versa. thank god. there is that exchange. but to gloss over some of the real power differences between the titles does a serious disservice to finding a way to social justice and liberation. i say this because a lot academics are not only activists but act as managers/gatekeepers in the activism...
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“The word hapa has also recently been used more in Asian American Studies....”
– Critical transformations » Honolulu Weekly
“In the midst of all of the distress the earthquake brought in its initial days,...”
– Smile and Nod: Implementing a “Community-Based Approach” - But For Real
“Sa init ng araw at haba ng martsa, isyu talaga ang inumin. Halos walang narinig...”
– Lakad Lakbay Bayan « Kapirasong Kritika
Boston Review — Sidney Mintz: Whitewashing Haiti's... →
bonesarecoralmade:
After the Revolution, the Haitian people were left to build all the national institutions that a state requires. The term “institution” is used here in a simple way: organizations for the conduct of a society’s social life, whether economic, political, or cultural. This includes a postal system, a system of education, a health system, even a system of roads. Institutions in...
