Sustained grief is particularly disturbing in a culture that offers a quick fix for pain. Sometimes it amazes me to know intuitively that the grieving are all around us yet we do not see any overt signs of their anguished spirits. We are taught to feel shame about grief that lingers. Like a stain on …
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect & trust. bell hooks. Communion: The Female Search for Love. (via bittersueszzz)
Whether we like it or not, cinema assumes a pedagogical role in the lives of many people. It may not be the intent of the filmmaker to teach audiences anything, but that does not mean that lessons are not learned. Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies by bell hooks (via bittersueszzz)
The search for love continues even in the face of great odds. – a graffiti that used to be on a construction wall near Yale, snapshots of this graffiti (used to?) hang above bell hooks kitchen sink. She describes how these words moved and inspired her in the book I’m currently reading, All About Love: New …
Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it becomes a vehicle to be talked about in mainstream news, the rap that gets in national news is always the rap music that perpetuates misogyny that is most obscene in its lyrics and then this comes to stand for what …
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Last night I finally saw the acclaimed movie Beasts of the Southern Wild. It’s one of those films that are literally breathtaking and it needs to settle before I can finally decide what I really think of it. One thing is clear: Oscar-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Hushpuppy) is amazing, her on-screen presence is tremendous. I don’t …
Tragically we are witnessing a resurgence of harmful misogynist assumptions that mothers cannot raise healthy sons, that boys ‘benefit’ from patriarchal militaristic notions of masculinity which emphasize discipline and obedience to authority. Boys need healthy self esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the …
Currently, we are witnessing a resurgence of white supremacist thinking among disenfranchised classes of white people. These extremist groups respond to misinformation circulated by privileged whites that suggests that black people are getting ahead financially because of government policies like affirmative action, and they are taught to blame black folks for their plight. bell hooks. Where …
Ending welfare will mean that more white women than ever before in our nation s history will enter the ranks of the underclass. Like their black counterparts, many of them will be young. Workfare programs, which pay subsistence wages without the backdrop of free housing, will not enhance their lives. As the future “poorest of …
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. bell hooks (via ann–bittersuesz)
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