“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”—Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Ari Wow. 21. Queer. Mixed. Prefer to be referred to as: "Ari."
N. Virginia born, NoVA&Cali raised.
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Whitecismaledudeprivvy stares and whispers and gestures and vibes and aggression. Not into it.
I’m just tryn to listen to live music and do work in a nice space. Are you lookin at my me or the James Baldwin books on my table or the masks you apply to me or what what what.![veganderthal:
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The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit. Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlY
When I was in prison I worked 3 shifts a day, 5 days a week, starting at 5 AM and ending at 8 PM. I was paid $5.25 a month. Pay for the inmates who facilitate UNICOR workers (by making their food, washing their laundry, etc,) is even lower than the wages cited in the above graphics. The prison industry is also a slave industry, and it isn’t just corporations who benefit. All the furniture you see in federal buildings, post offices, DMVs, etc, where do you think it comes from? Prison labor. I think a lot of people know about states that use prison labor for license plates, but fewer people know that the plaques on doors at city halls, and sometimes the doors themselves, come from prison labor. The incarcerated are a hyper-exploited class unto themselves, and almost no one seems to be helping them to organize.
93 cents is a little on the high side. In NYC’s Rikers Island, the largest prison in the world with 11,000 prisoners, raised their prisoners wage to 39 cents per hour during the Sandy recover.
Of the estimated 11,000 inmates, 92 to 95 percent of the Rikers population is black or Latino. Yet whites make up the majority (44%) of NYC’s population.
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”—Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/48e8a995773dfcfcbb56992a25614a55/tumblr_mjec7z7fnA1qj171uo1_500.jpg)
The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit.
Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlYWhen I was in prison I worked 3 shifts a day, 5 days a week, starting at 5 AM and ending at 8 PM. I was paid $5.25 a month. Pay for the inmates who facilitate UNICOR workers (by making their food, washing their laundry, etc,) is even lower than the wages cited in the above graphics. The prison industry is also a slave industry, and it isn’t just corporations who benefit. All the furniture you see in federal buildings, post offices, DMVs, etc, where do you think it comes from? Prison labor. I think a lot of people know about states that use prison labor for license plates, but fewer people know that the plaques on doors at city halls, and sometimes the doors themselves, come from prison labor. The incarcerated are a hyper-exploited class unto themselves, and almost no one seems to be helping them to organize.
93 cents is a little on the high side. In NYC’s Rikers Island, the largest prison in the world with 11,000 prisoners, raised their prisoners wage to 39 cents per hour during the Sandy recover.
Of the estimated 11,000 inmates, 92 to 95 percent of the Rikers population is black or Latino. Yet whites make up the majority (44%) of NYC’s population.
TELL ‘EM, PERRY!!
She just delivered a verbal teaching/smack down.
*Edit* And I appreciate that they remixed Baauer’s song and gave it an actual beat.
Yes.
“The international video viral madness that is populating facebook and filling segments of the morning shows. It’s fascinating but it is not, I repeat not, the Harlem Shake… the Harlem Shake has a history and a trajectory embedded in the authentic lived urban experience. It has been popular in NY since at least the 1980s… But in truth you have not seen the Harlem Shake unless you have seen kids on a NY subway performing the intricate, fast-paced, and on-beat moves while maintaining balance on a moving train. Now this is about more than proper designation of a popular dance, its about cultural appropriation. When communities create original art, they have a right to some control over its definition… Creative interpretation is expected to respect certain boundaries, thats what conveys the respect… This is especially true within the long history of vouyerism and appropriation of Harlem’s artistic innovations. Harlem has given birth to some of americas most distinctive and original art, music, and literature. And just as surely as Harlem has innovated, it has been invaded by those who come to Harlem with little sence of history or social context and no desire for political or economic solidarity. Think of the original Cotton Club of the 1920s… It was home to Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Betsy Smith, Ella Fitzgerald; but only white patrons were allowed. No member of the community could sit and enjoy the music that the community itself created. And the wound of that cultural theft is still fresh. And the new shake craze must be understood in that context.”
Melissa Harris-Perry on the appropriation of the “Harlem Shake”
met an awesomeeee person during work today. we talked for a long time about poc/mixed/api/aapi/white spaces, privilege, growing up experiences, having mixed kids/how they see their kid experience being mixed in this context, williamsburg/colonial ventures, etc.
figuring out how to talk to people in a way that seems fulfilling, honest, truthful, and good in spaces with harmful cultures. <3
It’s taken months
To find the stones, pebbles, branches
I’ve thrown into the water
Hoping that each one would remain without sinking below the
surface.
I dug
with raw finger tips into
bloody dirt.
Tenderly avoiding severing roots and segmenting bodies of earthworms
working through
decomposition.
The smoke still hangs in the air
mixing
with sweet scents of honeysuckle and rain.
Many of the support beams and crossbars,
Nuts and bolts are still visible.
Structureless frame remaining.
The embers are not yet ashes.
They smolder still, threatening to ignite any leaf or debris that grazes their innards.
Prone to
Temperamental flare ups.
I feel confident that
I can make
a solid path
across the water with the earth I’ve thrown.
Piled upon itself .
Piled upon my self.
This is not a replacement
This is not a bridge.
I no longer wish to circumvent the water
Getting my shoes wet,
the potential of slipping, tumbling in, getting cut bruised —swept away by the current .
I was too far above
the flowing waters before to see the tadpoles
budding legs above their tails.
The water
looked all one
mirroring color,
and I saw more of the trees in its surface
than any of what was
within and below.
Removing your gender on facebook so gender neutral pronouns are used.
This is kind of complicated to explain, so I shall try my best.
It’s easiest to do this on Firefox or Safari- for Safari, you’ll need to turn the developer’s option on (by going to preferences, then advanced options, then checking the box at the bottom). For Firefox, you need to download firebug.
Go on to ‘Edit my Profile’ and right-click on the gender field, and select ‘Inspect Element’.
A new window will open with a bunch of coding. Right-click on the line that is highlighted, and select ‘Edit as html’.
I had female selected on my facebook, so I then copied the ‘<option value=”2”>Male</option>’ section of the code, and pasted it straight after itself.
In this new pasted section, change the ‘2’ to a ‘0’, and change ‘Male’ to whatever you want (it doesn’t matter what you change it to because it will just come up as Select Gender’).
After this, exit the Inspect Element window, select this new gender field, and save the profile changes. It should come up with ‘Select gender’, and facebook will use they/their etc as pronouns.
Any problems, don’t hesitate to ask.
I took great advantage in this, very happy!
just did this on facebook. downloaded safari for free from the mac website and it was pretty simple. hope this helps
didn’t work for me but hopefully it does for other folx. tried firefox, chrome, and mozilla… there are slight differences for each of those, google searching for the specific browser brings up the nuances.
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Nina Simone was born on this date in 1933. We remember her with a song born through pain.
Three days after the Rev.. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death. Hear Simone’s brother and organist Samuel Waymon remember that powerful performance in an archival interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition.
Nina Simone’a Anthology is one of the 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.
listened to this song yesterday in my Civil Rights Literature class with a guest speaker/professor of music. The entire experience was super amazing. Yesterday was filled with listening to voices I am familiar with, voices I am unfamiliar with, and words, songs, and spirit, movement, and energies I am unfamiliar with.
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#stackingthingsatbars. Ipanema on the 14th w good folx.
I love how the big cats don’t really grab the scruff. it’s just… they engulf their heads. uvu it’s so cute.
BUH
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"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget; that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before."
I was lucky go catch Terisa Siagatonu throw it down with this beautiful poem on Saturday at Jean Melesaine’s Navigating Queer Waves show at Galería de la Raza I love how these badass poets of color are queerifying the world one poem at a time!
NOTE: This is only part of the poem.
When “I” came out
I was the first one out of all of us to do it
It wasn’t on my terms
It wasn’t from a closet, no.
Our people don’t come from closets
They come from land and water
And I told you
I am constantly learning the difference
between loving the ocean
And becoming one
And I think I’m an ocean y’all
And I didn’t come out
I fell out
I spilled and wet myself, and
everything around me
I don’t have bones like that,
so nothing broke
I didn’t break anything, I thought
At not on purpose
But I made a loud crashing
sound against my own chest
I know that much is true
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holy jesus these are amazing
For my phenomanimal :3
valentines day mehhh
but pokemon heeeeyyy
Community,
The second #raceriottour is going down in October of 2013 through twelve more cities and we want YOU to come with us.
We are looking for the following:
- Guest readers in every city* (you must be a person of color)
- Rotating tour buddies: Join us on the road and participate in 1-3 tour events as a panelist/reader/tabler
- POC (or POC fronted) bands to perform at each #raceriottour event!
- More POC & ally tablers for each city: come to a POCZP event in your town and table for your zine/org/collective <3
We’re also looking for folks to help us produce #raceriottour fundraiser events between now and September. This might be a good solution for you if you are unable to travel.
Contact poczineproject@gmail.com for more details. Make sure to use “2013 RACE RIOT TOUR” as the email subject.
COMMUNITY QUESTIONS
We’re connecting with people and holding events through the Southwest and West Coast, including (but not limited to) Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle.
If we were to come to your town, what are the POC run/led spaces that have a history of serving communities of color? We are committed to to holding every event on this tour in a POC-affirming space. Tell us in the reblog note or send us a message.
If you’re down to help us organize an event as part of our second Race Riot! tour in YOUR city, let us know!
<3
POC Zine Project
*We will announce the full list of confirmed 2013 #raceriottour cities on February 14, 2013.
ABOUT THE RACE RIOT! TOUR
POC Zine Project held its first Race Riot! Tour in 2012, producing 20 events in 14 cities, which included speaking engagements at six universities. Click here to view photos from the POC Zine Project: 2012 Race Riot! Tour tour finale at Death By Audio in Brooklyn and access all the tour stop recaps.
We will be taking the Race Riot! Tour through 12 more cities in 2013.
SUPPORT POC ZINE PROJECT
If everyone in our community gave $1, we would more than meet our fundraising goal for 2013. If you have it to spare, we appreciate your support. All funds go to our 2013 tour, the Legacy Series and the poverty zine series.
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This sounds awesome!!!
