Happiness is not good enough. Don’t rest on happiness. I mean it’s okay and I hope you are all happy, but we got to do more than that. Toni MorrisonJust one of many thought-provoking statements by Morrison in a 2010 conversation with Angela Davis on libraries, literacy, and liberation (and so much more) The discussion …
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston Please stay here with us. (via stayherewithus)
Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God’s name is the point of cultural studies?…At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we’ve been able to change anything …
Black Women’s Activism and Suffrage in Oklahoma Territory
A topic often discussed in recent time on progressive, feminist, anti-racist sites is how the default term “women” refers to white women, while the work, struggle, and issues of women of color are not mentioned, erased, ignored. One example of this is the discussion in the US regarding this year’s equal pay day. The pay …
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‘To make an epoch’ is to make history, which is the product of the struggle and even the struggle itself; when there is no more struggle, there is no more history. So long as there is struggle there is history, and therefore hope. As soon as there is no more struggle, no more resistance from …
The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, …
The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle. Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
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