February 2012
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...
– Rumi (via lucifelle)
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I hate this head space
blackamazon:
I cal it the no sympathy headspace
like I can’t in anyway sympathize with other women’s stories. I feel like an awful person.
But if it’s not a woman of color or poverty there becomes a mental block
It’ll pass
but I can’t get past the
” oh you expected to have safet/money/sympathy/ access /help?”
Why did you expect that?
Who was suppose dot give it to you
Who is supposed to...
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For Those Unable to Score Kraftwerk Tickets...
wfmu:
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http://jumaaprayer.com/ →
Jumaa is a worldwide fellowship of Christians that meet weekly to Intercede in prayer on behalf of Muslims and the Islamic World. Jumaa prayer groups meet faithfully every week on Friday, the Islamic day of prayer. It is our hope that through the continued prayers of Christians, God will reveal Himself to the more than 1 billion Muslims who are lost and desperately seeking answers.
So...
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TRANSNATIONAL DESI PRIDE
“There is an unexploded land mine heart in us
under...
– Tassja: http://irresistable-revolution.blogspot.com/2011/08/desi-pride.html (via anuraglahiri)
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Quiz time!
When was the last time you saw a series that starred (not as a featured player, but the series protagonist) a young woman of color (Black, Arab, API American, Desi, Latina, Native American, multiracial) who
wasn’t the sidekick-BFF of a white person; and
wasn’t the girlfriend of a white person; and
is starring in a comedy-drama or dramatic series?
That’s So Raven satisfies the...
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It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many
gods.
I want to know if...
– David Whyte, “Self Portrait” (via waveofwords)
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There’s something curious that happens to Black girls on their way to...
– Helena Andrews, “Reserve”, from Black Cool, ed. Rebecca Walker
Enjoying the book thus far - so far I’m partial to Mat Johnson’s discussion of the Black geek and cool, and dream hampton’s contribution bowled me over the the best way. Andrews’ essay is on the...
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If I were God, I think I’d be too secure in Myself to worry much about whether...
– Sean Padilla
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nervousgnosis ha respondido a tu vídeo: Manila and Sahara talk about RuPaul’s Drag Race…
Boxers is sooooo tacky :(
Between the name of the bar and the website, I’m very, very sure that this is not my kind of bar. (The photo galleries are making my soul cry. It’s like a casting call for Shit Ju Hates: Kathy Griffin, hyperdeveloped muscle queens on Pride floats, the fiendish mind...
Well, shit, everyone should just follow... →
modernistwitch:
Best person/best blog.
Basically. I’d reblog all the truth bombs that have been thrown out today, but better to go straight to the source.
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