memorias: olvidad@s y recuperad@s

My love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too magic to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too Saturday nite to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face.
My love is too music to have thrown back on my face.

Ntozake Shange (via sharaisuperstar)

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Nakba Day 2013: Palestinians mark 65th year of 1948 displacement

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lasiguanaba:

Maya Women reversing that White Settler-Colonial Gaze.

exotic white ppl we see u

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Night Madness Poem

specialbean:

There’s a poem in my head
like too many cups of coffee.
A pea under twenty eiderdowns.
A sadness in my heart like stone.
A telephone. And always my
night madness that outs like bats
across this Texas sky.

I’m the crazy lady they warned you about.
The she of rumor talked about —-
and worse, who talks.

It’s no secret.
I’m here. Under a circle of light.
The light always on, resisting a glass,
an easy cigar. The kind

who reels the twilight sky.
Swoop circling.
I’m witch woman high
on tobacco and holy water.

I’m a woman delighted with her disasters.
They give me something to do.
A profession of sorts.
Keeps me industrious
and of serviceable use.

In dreams the origami of the brain
opens like a fist a pomegranate,
an expensive geometry.

Not true.
I haven’t a clue
why I’m rumpled tonight.

Choose your weapon.
Mine — the telephone, my tongue,
Both black as a gun.

I have the magic of words,
the power to charm and kill at will.
To kill myself or to aim haphazardly.
And kill you.

- Sandra Cisneros

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Lykke Li - Little Bit (Gigamesh Remix)

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dynamicafrica:

Somali poet Warsan Shire has become the first winner and recipient of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize.

Out of a total of 655 entries, Shire was shortlisted along with six other African up-and-coming poets.

The 24-year-old Kenyan born, England-raised poet has read her work globally, and her poetry pamphlet Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth was published in 2011 by flipped eye.

The judges praised Warsan’s poetry for its combination of substance, beauty and drama. Her work was described as “…beautifully crafted, subtle and understated in its use of language and metaphor yet still able to evoke a strong sense of mood and place that touches the reader.”

“I’ve never been to Somalia, and I’m Somali. So the poems for me are a way of creating a connection to a country I’ve never been to. I don’t know how it feels to belong, or to be home or anything like that,” - Shire

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raptivism:

“Oscar Grant Movie Trailer just came out. Starts at the Cannes Film Festival in France this weekend. Praying for success there. Then moves to LA Film Festival as the Gala film and premieres on June 17th. It will be in Oakland shortly after that to premiere, then to New York for a premiere, and finally in theaters July 26, 2013” (via The Oscar Grant Foundation)

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noterajeschicanita:

“I think the reason this image [Coyolxauhqui] is so important to me is that when you take a person and divide her up, you disempower her. She’s no longer a threat. My whole struggle in writing, in this anticolonial struggle, has been to put us back together again. To connect up the body with the soul and the mind with the spirit. That’s why for me there’s such a link between the text and the body, between textuality and sexuality, between the body and the spirit.” —Gloria Anzaldúa

*shoutout to analouise for sharing this gea quote/drawing

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reselect:

Read the full Cover Friday writeup on Brenton Wood’s “Gimme Little Sign” in today’s accompanying post…

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