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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
pink
That's about right!
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well anonymous, my love life is pretty non-existent, except that i love lots of people in lots of different ways— i've had and still do have fabulous friends and lovers (and some that weren't so fabulous, of course). i'm openly poly, but pretty much single right now (so if you know someone, ehem). i'm not looking, but i am open to whatever ways love shows itself. always open to love.
today, to be specific, i'm in love with a wonderful woman, who is not in love with me. however, we love each other a lot, and are great friends to each other, and sometimes it makes me happy just to be experiencing such profound love, and sometimes it makes me feel sad that i'm not getting love in the way i want/had imagined, etc. boo/hiss for expectations. also sometimes, love makes me feel tortured and super emo. but that's just my emo personality.
file this under: tmi.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
how to support a revolution
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what i learned in the past month and past 31 years…
–offer free babysitting for folks who are going to hit the streets or do other kinds of work/revolt that is more difficult with children around
–let people sleep on your couch, bed, mattress, floor. offer crash space.
–if you have internet. share internet w those who dont.
–keep the bar stocked.
–keep cigarettes stocked
–if you have al jazeera english. let folks come over and watch. call folks with the latest news if you know they dont have access.
–keep basic first aid supplied handy
–be a street medic. ( i will never forget the guy who came to me with coca cola to blow in my nose to off set the effects of tear gas. it fucking worked.)
–if you can translate, do so. like it was so helpful when we could watch state tv and have someone translate for us, or watch aje and vice versa for the arabic speakers.
–joke and laugh a lot. morbid jokes are totally appropriate.
–trust chaos. (fighting it accomplishes nada)
–keep food stocked. (you never know who is coming by. or when stores will be open or closed. )
–take pictures. document. reflect the revolution to the world. tell the stories.
–fight. if you cant fight on the front lines, support the people who are fighting on the front lines.
–remember its not about you or me. its about freedom.
–model self care. (ppl who need to take time to take care of themselves are more likely to do so when they know that others around them are doing the same.)
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
"In many so-called primitive cultures it is a requirement of tribal initiati...
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"In many so-called primitive cultures it is a requirement of tribal initiation to spend a lengthy period alone in the forests or mountains, a period of coming to terms with the solitude and nonhumanity of nature so as to discover who, or what, one really is—a discovery hardly possible while the community is telling you what you are, or ought to be. He may discover, for instance, that loneliness is the masked fear of an unknown which is himself, and that the alien-looking aspect of nature is a projection upon the forests of his fear of stepping outside habitual and conditioned patterns of feeling. There is much evidence to show that for anyone who passes through the barrier of loneliness, the sense of individual isolation bursts, almost by dint of its own intensity, into the "all-feeling" of identity with the universe. One may pooh-pooh this as "nature mysticism" or "pantheism," but it should be obvious that a feeling of this kind corresponds better with a universe of mutually independent processes and relations than with a universe of distinct, blocklike entities."- Alan Watts, Nature, Man and WomanAlan Watts (via fuckyeahsolitude)
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Monday, February 07, 2011
A Short Course in Indigenous Feminism
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A Short Course in Indigenous Feminism: by Rowland Túpac Keshena
For those who don't know much about me, I am a currently studying for a Masters Degree in Public Issues Anthropology, specializing in a Fanon and MLM infused analysis of revolutionary Native nationalist and anti-colonialist movements in North Amerika. I also have really strong interrelated interests in revolutionary critical pedagogy, the "reindigenization" of the Chicano community and movement and, the subject of this post, indigenous feminism. Anyway, one of the perks of my program is that I can create my own courses, and I've taken such a route this semester by creating my own directed studies course in indigenous feminist theory.
The growth of indigenous feminism is, for me, a huge interest, both personal and academic, not just because of the obvious importance struggling against both white supremacist (ne0)colonial capitalism and hetero-patriarchy if we want to achieve meaningful freedom, justice and equality, but also because for a long time the status quo within our movement was that you could not be both a feminist and a native warrior. On the one hand we are not Native enough if we call ourselves and our movement feminist, but on the other we are not feminist enough for the whitestream feminists since we pointing out that the whitestream movement does not take us, and our unique experiences and struggles into account. I am indigenous man and I find this to be one of the greatest failings of our movement, and for that reason I wholeheartedly endorse, support and promote the rise of an indigenous feminism.
Anyway, with that in mind and in the spirit of sharing ideas, and radical education I've decided to post my reading list for others to take a look a lot, critique and/or otherwise contribute their thoughts. It's made up of a mix of books and articles, both academic and non-academic, which are available on line.
Books:
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, edited by Joyce Green
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, by Lee Maracle
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii, by Haunani-Kay Trask
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, by Eileen Morton-Robinson
Online Articles:
Indigenous Feminism Without Apology, by Andrea Smith
Jennifer Nez Denetdale on Indigenous Feminisms
An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism, Militarism, and the Environment, by Winona LaDuke
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism, by Aida Hernandez Castillo
Academic Journal Publications:
Wicazo Sa Review "Native Feminisms: Legacies, Interventions, and Indigenous Sovereignties," guest edited by Mishuana R. Goeman and Jennifer Nez Denetdale
Whiteness Matters: Implications of Talking Up to the White Woman, by Eileen Morton-Robinson
Race, Tribal Nation, and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging, by Renya Ramirez
Introduction: Special Issue on Native American Women, Feminism, and Indigenism, by Anne Waters
Patriarchal Colonialism and Indigenism: Implications for Native Feminist Spirituality and Native Womanism, by M. A. Jaimes Guerrero
Dismantling the Master's Tools with the Master's House: Native Feminist Liberation Theologies, by Andrea Smith
oh my gods yes. This reading list is amazing.
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Saturday, February 05, 2011
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Yaaaasuh!
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Really all I want is to take to the streets and have a glorious fight to the...
This!
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I don't want sustainable life. I want an excuse to go out like a martyr, with an appropriate amount of glory, and just never have to worry about shit else from that point on.
I want a full, adventurous, 30 year life-span of badassery and then I just want to call it a day.
The. End.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
"Defined more carefully, slow photography is the effort to flip the usual re...
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"Defined more carefully, slow photography is the effort to flip the usual relationship between process and results. Usually, you use a camera because you want the results (the photos). In slow photography, the basic idea is that photos themselves—the results—are secondary. The goal is the experience of studying some object carefully and exercising creative choice. That's it. Step 1 in slow photography is spending a long time studying the subject. As one guide enjoins, "pay more attention to your subject than to your camera." That's an order to actually use your eyes. It calls for consideration not just of what you think you see (a tree or a dog) but of the colors and shapes that present themselves. Thinking dog or tree can blind you to what you are really seeing—which is, in the end, a series of photons arranged in a way that for convenience you call dog. It may sound like semantics, but it makes all the difference. When you look carefully and avoid trying to label what you see, you inevitably start to notice things that you mightn't have otherwise. If Step 1 is a long consideration of the subject, Step 2 is the exercise of creative choices—the greatest pleasure that our automatic cameras rob us of. What should be in the frame and what should be excluded is the most obvious decision, but there's also exposure, depth of field, and more technical choices beyond that. Making such deliberate decisions requires a little bit of courage, for you cannot blame the camera if the results are bad. Yet these choices are, to my mind, the whole game. They are what individualizes photography, what puts the stamp of your personality on the photo. After taking these two steps, taking the photo becomes irrelevant. You've already had the experience. At this stage, you could shoot with a filmless camera, and the process could retain its power. In the logic of slow photography, the only reason to take photos is to gain access to the third stage, playing around in post-production, whether in a darkroom or using photo-editing tools, an addictive pleasure. In my experience, slow photography is a deeply enjoyable and almost hypnotic experience. The hours seem to zip by, especially when you're alone."<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2279659/pagenum/all/#p2">The slow-photography movement asks what is the point of taking pictures? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine</a></em>Things you can do from here:
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I FINALLY have a word for it.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
I FINALLY have a word for it.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Don't Go Back To Sleep
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
-RumiThank you to the Caravan of Dreams
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
How to Fuck Up
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How to Fuck Up: this is what I am reading now - an article linked from Questioning Transphobia's 101 - and I am going to follow these steps as best I can, and will most certainly fuck up in the un-fucking-up process. but here goes.
When you "Fuck Up" (whether the fuck-up is minor or major) practice the "Four A's".
- Acknowledgment
- Apology
- Amends
- Action
#1) Acknowledgment — is really important, IMO, because if you don't realize what you actually did, and how it was "fucked up", there's a high probability that you are going to do it again — a very high probability.
#2) Apology — is also really important — but it has to be genuine (which requires #1 - Acknowledgment). Saying things like "I'm sorry if you felt bad about what I said/wrote" or "I'm sorry if your feelings got hurt", is, IMO, completely different from saying "I'm sorry that I said/wrote that. I see how it was fucked up, and here's how I know that it was fucked up … . . ". (Keep in mind that "if" is a word reserved for hypotheticals, and doesn't usually refer to real life. When used in apology, "if" is usually just a dilutive, and if you can't really apologize, then don't apologize at all. Sort of a perverse Thumper ethic.)
#3) Amends — sometimes the energy required to actually think about how you fucked up and make an honest acknowledgment/apology is enough to return balance to the situation (depends on the type of fuck up, though). In some cases, "making amends" might also mean returning money/energy/time that your fuck-up created for someone else. This can be returned in any of a number of creative ways. Example: If you got all defensive in an argument, and therefore the argument took eight hours instead of 30 minutes… consider just giving the person with whom you got all defensive eight hours of your time to do for them something that they might have gotten done if you hadn't been all uppity-up in yourself being a defensive shit (not that I've ever done that … .no, that has never happened with me… . . OK, maybe just that once … OK — Fuck it! I'm completely busted here … .)
#4) Action — This may be the most important of the 4 A's. If you know that you did something that was fucked up, and you've expressed that you're genuinely sorry that you did this fucked up thing, then really, the only concrete evidence of this will be that you will change what you do in the future. For me, if I don't take this step (action), the other three are just so much manipulation.
I need to be clear on what I'm acknowledging, and honest about the consequences. so right now I'm going to go read what people wrote on the reblogs of my furious, prescriptive, poorly-thought-out, mess of a last post, and think about them, and then proceed using this model.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Age of Reason: Dalai Lama's 18 Rules for Living
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Age of Reason: Dalai Lama's 18 Rules for Living:
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Number 4! Number 4! Going from A+ to fail minus college student killed my law school dreams… But it gave me room to realize I was just trying to please my parents! And Law was almost the opposite of what I want to do with life! Yaaaay for failure! :]
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Everytime I stand up for myself....I am scared...
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yes, I may be all fearlessand vulnerable and ROOOOAAWR. But in reality….I be scared that when I stand up for myself that the person may not fuck with me no more.
And you know what blood, thats none of my business.
I'd rather you be mad @ me than me be mad @ you.
My feelings are my job. Not yours.
#Pow. Stand up for yourself. Its contagious.
#NoOutcomes.
#NohandsMa.
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"Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But yo...
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"Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself."- Unknown (via kari-shma)
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
shogunpassion: Costa Careyes, Mexico
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Monday, January 03, 2011
"I know with my family that even as my writing functioned to separate me fro...
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""I know with my family that even as my writing functioned to separate me from them…it has freed me to love them from places within myself that had before been mired in unexpressed pain. Writing has ultimately brought them back to me.""- Cherríe Moraga (Loving in the War Years)
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"These seem to be two contradictory messages. On the one hand, people are su...
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"These seem to be two contradictory messages. On the one hand, people are supposed to speak up when they're being assaulted or harassed, or it's their fault. On the other hand, speaking up makes you a shrill bitch. What's it going to be? Are you going to be the shrill bitch who doesn't let them get away with it, or are you going to be the meek victim who deserves what you get? Because these seem to be the two available choices."- meloukhia
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