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Mabior Garang, son of Dr John Garang, a former SPLA rebel leader and Sudanese politician ‘The people are edgy right now. They fought the war, contributed their children, their crops, their livestock. The moment they should be paid back, the movement is hijacked by the ”cut-and-paste middle class” – the foreign diaspora returning. They can’t institute policies that speak to the people. And when people are hungry and perceive those in power are denying them food, they will rise up.’
from South Sudan: Nation Builders by Zen Nelson/Institute via Guardian

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Aboriginal rights activist, Australia

This is Gary Foley. This photo was taken in 1971 during the Springbok tour of Australia. For more info about the history of the Aboriginal rights struggle, check out The Koori History Website, an amazing resource, that Gary created and read more about the story behind this photo.

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It cannot be assumed that the conditions of domination alone were sufficient to create a sense of common values, trust, or collective identification. The commonality constituted in practice depends less on presence or sameness than upon desired change—the abolition of bondage. Thus, contrary to identity providing the ground of community, identity is figured as the desired negation of the very set of constraints that create commonality—that is the yearning to be liberated from the condition of enslavement facilitates the networks of affiliation and identification.
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 59 (via howtobeterrell)

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Below are some of my favorite quotes from the various essays in the book.
by gradientlair:
“My audacity is my fight, to be bigger than my fear. I’ve never been able to summon fearlessness by anger, even when its been a reaction to deep injustice, social or personal; instead its functioned in my life as a kind of a walking meditation, one that has driven me around the world and back.” - dream hampton
“If you mistake the traits of poverty for your personal identity, you risk being locked into a position where you’re unable to advance without betraying yourself.” - Mat Johnson
“We do not require outside help to validate or promote the existence of Black cool, not are we about to sit back and watch our cool be traded and consumed by those who have not worn the heavy cloak of the battered and beautiful Black burden.” - Michaela Angela Davis
“I am not responsible for ‘others’ ignorance or denial about race or white privilege. I no longer carry the burden of navigating other people’s feelings. I will not be quiet for anyone else’s comfort.” - Michaela Angela Davis
I loved this quote because I often gush about Blues music. I think it was a tiny space in time where full Black male emotionality was accepted and seen as strength, not weakness. The music is so rich for this reason.
“Black males have helped create the blues, more than any other music, as a music of resistance to the patriarchal notion that a real man should never express genuine feelings. Emotional awareness of real-life pain in Black men’s lives was and is the soul of the blues.” - bell hooks
This quote is just literary gorgeousness. I can’t lie.
“I am a diaspora chick, so my Blackness spans galaxies known and unknown, Octavia Butler style, Toni Morrison flavored. It’s a beloved kindred thing that has so many more than nine lives, but no shelf life.” - Esther Armah
And obviously, becuase I am a photographer and a Black woman, I feel a pull toward this man’s words.
“The camera became my own way of exercising my subjectivity in the world through persistent visual authorship.” - Dawoud Bey
Read this book!

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While assimilation is seen as an approach that ensures the successful entry of black people into the mainstream, at its very core it is dehumanizing. Embedded in the logic of assimilation is the white supremacist assumption that blackness must be eradicated so that a new self, in this case a “white” self, can come into being. Of course, since we who are black can never be white, this very effort promotes and fosters serious psychological stress and even severe mental illness.
bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)

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AfroerotiK: Having a Pussy is NOT a Job

afroerotik:

There seems to be this thought process, this commonly-held belief that being a woman, that having a pussy is some sort of form of employment, that a vagina is a commodity men must purchase in order to be able to enjoy it, that sex is a business. I’m here to say that while that’s what a pussy…

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