December 2011
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Where Does All That Ugly Go in Our Beautiful...
I’m interested in powerful images that strike chords embedded deep in the resevoirs of our subconscious
-Wangechi Mutu
Trapped within the mundane white living of Orange County, California it becomes of paramount need to find the quiet moments of mental escape.[i]. Those breaks in the...
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“How should there be Black poets in America?
It was not natural. And she was the...”
– June Jordan, “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley” February, 1985
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Gregory Porter, “1960 what?”
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for lack of a better title: a short story about...
Elliot answered the phone quietly to not wake Jesse sleeping next to him. It was forty-five minutes earlier than the normal six a.m. alarm and the boys had stayed out late last night. “Hey,” whispered Elliot into the phone. His mother replied frantically, “Your sister and I need your help.” He rose from the bed and took the conversation into the next room. Jesse woke as he heard Elliot open the...
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i fell in love with jazz.
i couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old. i was driving across country with my grandparents (san diego, ca- birmingham, al). we were in the middle of texas, and i was in the backseat with my walkman playing (can’t remember what i was listening to), but i took my headphones out and my grandma and papa were singing “a-tisket, a-tasket, a brown and yellow basket, i send...
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Much Ado About Something: 2000 words on black,...
Once upon a time I wanted to be a constitutional lawyer. Which was actually a front for my real ambitions of wanting to be a U.S. Senator. Much in my college career effectively closed the door on the latter dream, and while the former is still very much possible, I would have to do some mental gymnastics in forgetting many of the lessons instilled in me through lectures, seminars, readings, and...
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“Too often our work is singularly focused on individual experience or relies on a...”
– Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on David Marriott, “Waking Nightmares” in GLQ
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charles mingus, “self portrait in three...
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bad tumblr karma
apparently my last post which contained a bit about the date i should be on right now came back to bite me in the ass. and here i sit alone on this sunday evening contemplating how a boy who actively sought my number at a party reveals to me his “closeted” status. and im not saying everyone needs to be “out,” it just brought a certain set of complications to the evening...
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a quick thought on queer safety.
late last night i was on my way home and the whiskey was still dancing in my body. which usually means im going to stop into the 7-11 and have myself a slurpee and hot-dog which is always thoroughly regretted in the morning. however, this particular evening i decided to “treat” myself to a something a bit “better” from the 24 hour “restaurant” in which the menu ranges from gyros to a slab of...
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shower time thought(2)...
surprisingly this is not simply because i am in chicago. i found this same problem when i was back in cali:
when i tell people what i’m interested in studying (Black queers) and my current research project (queer-history making and the slave archive) (and of course i don’t simply respond: “Black queers and queer history-making and the slave archive,” its a little more...
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shower time thought...
perhaps reasons why i’m single:
im running late for a date tonight:
a) because i am taking the time to write this post. which will be quickly followed by another post of a random thought.
b) because I was thinking of West Hollywood. and I was wondering what the “stop-and-frisk” stats would be for that city in comparison to the national stats and/or the other queer-cities in...
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“One of the defining features of contemporary political and intellectual culture...”
– Jared Sexton, “‘The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction,” in Critical Sociology (2010), pg. 15
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just because its funky:
jill scott’s “slowly...
“guys come and go, but great friends are like nice looking white dreads, hard to...”
– J, The Misadventures of AWKWARD Black Girl
Abolitionista's Pen: Unpopular opinion but.... →
abolitionista:
I’m a little tired of these Occupy LA folks (almost all white and definitely all non-black) clogging up my Facebook feed with these cries about the “pigs descending on them!” If only Black folks ever had an advance warning that the police were “descending on them” with the intent to do bodily…
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A (House) Dance with Desla: right on time.
There are some things that just come right on-time. Can’t really explain it. Can never rush it. No need to wait for it. It just comes. Much like this Lost Blaze mix of Jill Scott’s “Its Better.” Eight minutes and twelve seconds of a spiritual experience that I’m having in this coffee shop, playing on repeat. Listen-feel-smile-repeat. Click the link and let the sound be the track for this...
