tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81436415789855716842024-03-05T02:37:11.567-08:00Jouissanceivory towers and golden showers--arts + culture, high/low and the places in between. dinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15969633101055148719noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-79987720605810175892017-09-12T07:09:00.000-07:002017-09-12T09:31:58.690-07:00someone pleaseAsk Warren G to remake They Live.
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hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-79896005949306097172017-09-12T05:46:00.002-07:002017-09-12T09:37:14.696-07:00white lies matter<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/claudia-rankine-macarthur-genius-grant-exploring-whiteness">Claudia Rankine thinktank!</a><br />
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Rankine is extremely interested in whiteness, believing that “it’s important that people begin to understand that whiteness is not inevitable, and that white dominance is not inevitable.” One reason Rankine wants such a center to exist is because she recently went into a bookstore at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art “and I asked them for books on whiteness. The man was like, ‘What?’</div>
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There’s a lot of ways to think about whiteness... it involves the kind of underbelly that has been kept from the public</div>
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“I said, ‘Well, you know. Books that address the ways in which white contemporary artists deal with whiteness, interrogate it, analyze it, work in ways that push up with constructions of whiteness.’ He’s like, ‘I don’t know what you mean.’”</div>
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Rankine had a similar conversation in three different bookstores. While she knew they would have had books on African American art, these art bookshops never had anything to deconstruct race in general or whiteness in particular.</div>
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“Conceptions and constructions of whiteness,” she explained, have been “made and then propped up with eugenics and propped up with false science and false rhetoric and maintained through the justice system in every way”. They then become invisible. As writers and artists, she said, “it’s our job to point this out, because I really believe that people don’t know” – about what makes whiteness, or about how broad the life experiences of white people are.</div>
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boom.hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-35080703193436101842017-09-12T05:43:00.001-07:002017-09-12T10:57:50.841-07:00white people don't like the term decolonize because...<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037?journalCode=ctwq20&">they don't acknowledge the harm of colonialism</a> to begin with?<br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-1197090215987590312017-09-12T05:28:00.002-07:002017-09-12T05:28:03.286-07:00yellow woman's burdenwhat is it bitches?hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-21422289701084353362017-09-12T05:05:00.000-07:002017-09-12T05:05:02.195-07:00fixing racist shit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-10374574608534682372017-06-20T22:16:00.001-07:002017-06-23T01:10:16.334-07:00The spectacle of privilege/objectification & the unrelenting white gaze (July 2015)<div dir="ltr" style="color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; word-spacing: 1px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In sheer frustration over the Hillary Clinton (and others) phenomenon of "All lives matter" which may as well be translated as "MY life matters, bitch, stop complaining about black lives cuz I don't give a flying white fuck," and inspired by my friend who is female, black with beautiful, so-dark-it's-prismatic-melanin skin, I decided to naked-protest. It was foolhardy and asinine at best, had possibly devastating consequences for multiple close relationships, and, though I am glad I carried it through to the end ("it" being my naked yellow ass), I'm going to be marinating on, mourning, and healing from this for a good, long, time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My aforementioned melanin-rich friend had a GENIUS idea that was right up my alley: to bring some real shit to the white middle class clutches of this pagan hippie parade (or so I thought)--i.e. call attention to THEIR inattention of the maltreatment of Black folks in our system--the school-to-prison pipeline, incarceration rates, death via vigilante, police-brutality, and racism as institutionalized thusly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because at heart I love body, bawdy and naked, and I thought--hey, I should do it once WHILE folding in my "radical," non-conformist vision that Black people shouldn’t be shot in the streets or otherwise fucked over with impunity, to support my friend's struggle. Taking as cues the multiracial Oakland PD shut down, naked women's war protesting, and some art protesting my husband (who is Black) did the day before my daughter decided she wanted to join us in the struggle by exiting the womb in her birth, as well as pics I'd seen on the internet of "#Asians4BlackLives," I finally decided I'd do the naked adventure at midnight, the day of the summer <span class="term-highlighted" style="background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.498039);">solstice</span>, at <span class="term-highlighted" style="background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.498039);">Fremont</span>’s Summer <span class="term-highlighted" style="background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.498039);">Solstice</span> Parade/Naked Bike Ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TWO CHINKS IN THE IMPENETRABLE ARMOR OF WHITE PRIVILEGE DON'T DO SHIT (AT LEAST THEY'RE NAKED) FOR BLACK PEOPLE...OR ANYONE OTHER THAN WHITE MEN AND MEN LOOKING FOR TITTIES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To my chagrin, the message was lost. If my intent was, "Remember, two days ago, a white imbred fuck took nine Black lives from this earth forever," or "Remember, your honky asses swim in a sea of privilege and you don’t even care to notice all the bodies piled up underneath you," or even: "have a heart, all the white privilegeds," it was most certainly lost in a horde of creepos, assholes, exhibitionists, hos, and thugs, all of them (nearly), a skinny white boy twerking his bare ass repeatedly on his bicycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Circling back on it, it was like being in one of Dante's layers of white hell. So in retrospect, I'm glad my art-message-protest (a somber declaration via abstract symbols, signs, and colors, that we SEE, HEAR, and SPEAK of the evil done to Black folks, a message of unity despite our Raced-bodies as yellow and white) wasn't given as pablum to be consumed like a bag of chips while watching the boob tube--in this case, my boobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C) VACUOUS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">D) VOID OF MEANING</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E) WHITE ISOLATIONISM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">F) MASTURBATORY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">G) GROSS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">H) ALL OF THE ABOVE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wherever I go, the normative white gaze follows like one of those scary portrait pictures with the moving eyes. I left my job to escape it. It perniciously sticks to and follows the ones I love, chipping at their dignity as they weather the storm of working in and for a white world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I suppose it was my own naivete and upbringing as an asian american in this society that I thought a free-lovin' body-positive celebration of humanness thru its naked form would "save" me from the anger of continual trauma and injustice of racism (to the nation, to the world, to Black people, to my frail Asian lady body), or that I could somehow change by opening their eyes,ears, and mouths, to that favored white technique of maintaining the status quo. But I was dead. wrong. as each "WHOO HAPPY <span class="term-highlighted" style="background-color: rgba(251, 246, 167, 0.498039);">SOLSTICE</span>" rang out by from bikers and passers by, I grew angrier by the minute. Coupled with the obliviousness of my asian sisters and brothers in the audience and my white man friend's obliviousness to not only racism but also feminism and the purpose of our being there as a message, it dawned on me that no one, no how, can these white people be saved. It’s written all over their pervy faces and naked bodies. If empathy, love, and peace are the goal, vanity, lust, and sheer callousness reign supreme here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Had not the shootings in SC occurred, this would have been a different experience. I would be angry, but not so angry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a culture dissects our parts and constituencies and puts us on display, we are violated, disjointed, sad, and alone. Discounted, abused.</span></div>
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hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-34599821353254306642017-06-20T10:02:00.001-07:002017-09-12T10:26:21.283-07:00The antiblackwomanness of so-called Seattle progress<b>How are we indicted </b>in the most happy of recently-published Seattle spate of virulent anti-Black racism and misogynoir? : (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/06/26/25247784/the-white-man-who-was-inside-blackrastamammy-puppet-at-fremont-parade-says-he-is-not-a-racist">He</a> even enjoyed <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/06/18/25224396/what-is-up-with-this-racist-costume-spotted-at-the-fremont-solstice-parade" target="_blank">being black (danced/shuffled his feet off)</a> for a <a href="http://onjouissance.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-spectacle-of-privilegeobjectificati.html" target="_blank">predominately white audience</a>." "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Relatives expressed skepticism about what, if anything, <a href="http://crosscut.com/2017/07/charleena-lyles-funeral-seattle-family-speaks/" target="_blank">Lyles</a> had armed herself with."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://kuow.org/post/understand-white-liberal-racism-read-these-private-emails" target="_blank">To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails.</a>) </span><br />
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Isn't Seattle a progressive, accepting, open-minded liberal and therefore not-racist place? In a word, no. It's not.<br />
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I am not going into the anti-Black anti-Native anti-POC sentiments of our beautiful region, as others have done so well before me and <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/" target="_blank">Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project</a> documents. But let me as an art historian think up just a <i>few</i> connections between our present crises and the past. I'm going to say it again. Gentrification is the new colonization. When you whitewash a person, a people, where does their 'flavor' go? Into an exotic, liminal abyss? To Whole Foods?<br />
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Few things to consider first, though.<br />
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1. The ongoing doucheification of the city. $$$ without limit, the lack of affordability for <i>anyone not super rich</i>. There is an influx of $$$ without critical thought or heart. Bezosland. The predominant demographic racially in tech white and Asian, in my experience, and also some recent African immigrants--just don't get it, or are anti Black (American) in some way. This has to do with success, a desire for personal uplift, assimilation. Efficiency. Finance above all else. This is Macklemore's city.<br />
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2. The inability of whites and people of color especially Black people to be real with each other. Just join any mom's group. Just host a party with your Black and white friends and see how it goes with both present. Just read <i>Citizen </i>by Claudia Rankine. The schism is real, people.<br />
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3. Statistics I've said it before. 75% of white people ONLY KNOW WHITE PEOPLE. That's why when I go to white church and compliment the pastor--not just the pastor, the regional bishop, on his Beyonce references (when he says God is "Crazy in Love" with us about 1000x in the sermon), it's an inside joke for myself and myself alone. LOL.<br />
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My personal position as a non-Black person of color is to recognize my own brainwashing. How do I stand against anti-Black racism in my own communities? Do you know *HOW* rampant this problem is in POC communites (See: My wedding. My family. My family's church). It's everywhere.<br />
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4. Classic (that is, standard) uncritical and/or selfish, selfish self-promotion based on the degrading and devaluing of Black women. Iggy Azalea. Norbit. Tyler Perry. Black girls at the pool. --<br />
>Black girls at school. R Kelly. Bill Cosby. Clarence Thomas. Need I say more? I wish America had a reality check moment, sometime, like, ever, and instead of seeing our nation as built on some idealistic eagles and white ladies sewing, we just bore actual motherfucking witness to the tearing asunder of women's bodies through rape and slavery and Black families. (American as apple pie). Have you <i>seen</i> the statistics of an African-American genetic history? It's always a white man ancestor and an African woman ancestor. Nuff said.<br />
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I admire the Netflix series Master of None's ability (written by Indian-American Aziz Ansari and Taiwanese-American Alan Yang) to explore race politics from a non-black POC perspective--the telling scene displays the complicity of non-Black POC in anti-Black racism. Main character Dev grabs a condom from a white woman' cookie jar, but get this--it's a MAMMY cookie jar. This is hella fucked up, but he *knows* it. Then he acknowledges the racism of the jar, <i>after</i> having sex with the white woman, who obviously has no Black friends to check her on her cookie jar racism.<br />
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Recommended art-viewing/aesthetics in response to your own deep-seated anti-Black anti-Black woman psychoses and racial isolation:<br />
1) Beyonce Lemonade<br />
Beyonce Self-titled<br />
Solange Knowles A Seat at the Table <br />
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2) bell hooks (who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmgqXao1ng" target="_blank">dislikes Bey</a>) anything.<br />
-see Killing Rage, 'reading against he grain.'<br />
-if you're in a stifling white environment reading teaching hope and teaching love<br />
-if you're a woman of color recently navigating intersectionality, or someone trying to understand how a woman can also be Black, or a person can be Black and also a woman, ain't i a woman.<br />
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3) always read Anthem by Claudia Rankine. Always.<br />
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4) Sankofa<br />
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5) Being Mary Jane-center Black female experience. also so sexy.<br />
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6) Junebaby: eat there it's so good!<br />
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7) Dear white People<br />
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8) Janelle Monae music videos<br />
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9) I love my Hair (Sesame Street): Don't take white beauty norms for granted, people.<br />
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10) Empire<br />
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11) Maybe, Orange is the new black (it is about white women but has many other ethnicities of women including LGBTQ, which is rare in television, and asian anti blackness is addressed awkwardly in the poussey-soso relationship)<br />
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12) Black women i hear love Scandal, but I don't do political dramas.<br />
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13) Always Octavia Butler, Always.<br />
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14) the bell hooks and Melissa Harris Perry talk linked to above: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmgqXao1ng">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmgqXao1ng</a><br />
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15) Issa Rae! Insecure, so sexy and timely.<br />
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16) Chewing Gum: esp the episode with the white guy with a Black woman fetish<br />
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17) <a href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8erio6/chappelle-s-show-mooney-on-movies---uncensored" target="_blank">Paul Mooney on Hattie McDaniels</a> <br />
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18) <a href="https://indypendent.org/2014/06/why-i-yelled-at-the-kara-walker-exhibit/" target="_blank">this all reminds me of a certain Mammy Sphinx in gentrified NYC and the white public art audiences' responses to it. :(</a><br />
My heart is pained because my sisters are suffering. We are all to blame. If yours isn't, I ask, what's wrong with you?<br />
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<br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-66616319661603958192017-06-19T16:20:00.001-07:002017-09-12T11:02:05.951-07:00RESPECT every boobieOur mammophilic and gynocentric society praises the arduous work of home management and childcare. This leaves men have a boobie complex. To be more successful and respected, they wear fake breasts with an elaborate breastfeeding contraption, and often walk out with these breasts, nipples showing through their floral blouses. Some get implants but still need the feeding tube. Men who choose not to wear the fake breasts in public are thought of and judged by other men and women as a little off, wayward for flaunting their masculinity.<br />
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There are lactation clinics and breast specialists for women to chat all things boobie - - for play, foreplay, breastfeeding, support, sagging, perkiness, massage, bras, comfort measures, forums for "does your bra cause or prevent sagging with age?" Old women with saggers, flatter women with perky tits, implanters, reducers, are in free and judgment-free exchange for these important weekly town halls. The struggles of latching, feeding, clogging, all take place at homes and luxurious nursing lounges in every workplace (even small businesses and workplaces with a largely undocumented or underpaid labor force, get free resources for quarterly training and renovations, and supplies for their nursing lounges. Women receive $100,000 minimum per year for their work at home with chores, groceries, child rearing, worrying, working for her family to improve the state of house and family 120% of her time, plus an as-needed per child reimbursement for couples therapy, therapy, pharmaceuticals, and hippie medicines. Stay at home dads get $92,000 minimum per year, but we are working on that wage gap (and of course, the breastfeeding contraption is paid for--for all dads who apply via a long annoying hold line muzak process to their local state healthcare agency, where they are only occasionally made to feel inferior by the woman on the other line).<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><much indebted="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" to="">Much indebted to "On Discovery"</much><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">: the story of Tang Ao's discovery of the "Land of Women" in </span><i>Chinamen</i> by Maxine Hong Kingston</span><br />
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hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-41059796725610537742017-06-19T16:07:00.002-07:002017-06-19T16:07:20.609-07:00I WISH I WAS STINKY AS YOU<i>on deregulating bland supremacy in all american (tm) food.</i><br />
Wow, lucky!!! You're eating a pungent and nutritious egg. My sugary pastry chased by listerine breath cannot compare. Fish? I wish.<br />
<br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-34487694918696814002017-03-04T06:19:00.001-08:002018-11-04T14:12:30.946-08:00silver spoon i know you come from, ya bish. Hildegard & misogyny; Emily Carr & dog breedingHappy Pussy History Month/<i>Dreams of living life like rappers do.</i><br />
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Hildegard's Awakening (Self-Portrait).<br />
Mystic chic white women: <i>Hildegard or Hallelujah?</i><br />
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How I want that tentacled mind-spirit massage!<br />
Keep in mind, a dose of hildegard comes with some unpleasantly self hating madonna/whore baggage. 12th century FTW!<br />
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But then her image of the universe is certainly a celebration of the vaginal..and., this may just be pregnant me, but do not those towers seem to be topped with breasts (complete with milk ducts?)<a href="https://sfmosaic.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/hildegard-von-bingen/"><img src="https://sfmosaic.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/20-499.jpg" /></a>
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Das Weltall. Manuscript illumination from Scivias (Know the Ways) by Hildegard of Bingen (Disibodenberg: 1151). <i>They say your hood is a pot of gold. </i><br />
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In Hildegard, I sense a profound interiority of mind and vision that is perhaps related to isolation and being underestimated by surrounding haters and circumstances. In particular her connection to nature and divine vibrations, a unique feminine visioning of reality, reminds me of <a href="http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/canadian/Emily-Carr.html">Emily Carr</a>, who with her arborphilia said: "Trees are so much more sensible than people, steadier and more enduring" and "I ought to stick to nature because I love trees better than people." <br />
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About this white Canadian woman Emily Carr, having lost her parents and gone to art school, in the motherland Europe, in the late 19th century, did she feel drawn to Native BC cultures and their impressive ancestral-artwork in totem poles, because she was isolated in 'proper' white-dude art circles? What prompts white, or otherwise privileged ladies (like myself) to connect with an <a href="https://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/postcold.htm">other</a>ed experience? It could just be a visceral connection to Native respect (rather than domination of) for trees. I was listening to a historians view of why a white and native neighboring community in the pacific NW couldn't culturally jibe. It turns out it was because the whites did not understand why the natives had do much respect for trees. (Read: profit over respect?) Hm.<br />
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Some additional Emily Carr biography: "In 1913 she was obliged by financial considerations to return permanently to Victoria after a few years in Vancouver, both of which towns were, at that time, conservative artistically. Influenced by styles such as postimpressionism and Fauvism, her work was alien to those around her and remained unknown to and unrecognized by the greater art world for many years. For more than a decade she worked as a potter, dog breeder and boarding house landlady, having given up on her artistic career."<br />
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So in the sense that sometimes, privileged isolated visionary ladies get shit done but aren't recognized for a long time by their surrounding community, so you make do amidst the misunderstandings you inevitably encounter...I get it: for now, I am like in Emily Carr's phase of giving up on art and working as a potter, dog breeder, and boarding house landlady for now. Because <i>What else is a thug to do when you eatin' cheese from the government</i><br />
<i>Gotta provide for my daughter 'n' 'em, get the fuck up out my way, bitch</i><br />
<i><br /></i>BUT there's still hope. Kendrick says so:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And I been hustlin' all day, this a way, that a way</span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Through canals and alleyways, just to say</span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Money trees is the perfect place for shade and that's just how I feel </span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A dollar might, just fuck your main bitch that's just how I feel </span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A dollar might, say fuck them n****s that you came with that's just how I feel </span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A dollar might, just make that lane switch that's just how I feel</span><br style="color: #616161; font-family: Roboto, arial, 'Noto Sans Japanese', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , "noto sans japanese" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A dollar might, turn to a million and we all rich that's just how I feel</span></i></span><br />
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hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-74955686734796735162017-03-04T05:52:00.000-08:002017-03-04T07:40:18.010-08:00the goalis the goal as a person of color to ascend the ivory tower in order to pee on it? and if so, how do we know that it's not surrounded by an invisible
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<br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-18075435402389654592017-01-18T03:25:00.001-08:002017-06-20T08:07:40.439-07:00i can'tI can't give a shit anymore about art that doesn't liberate. I'm fighting for my family's survival and right to psychic freedom and life. What are you doing?hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-59377560368052837392017-01-17T14:41:00.001-08:002017-01-18T03:24:10.202-08:00Inescapably subaltern If the aim of art is to transcend one's own body, what about those bodies invisible and left behind? If Roland Barthes' "death of the author" is precluded upon the invisibility, i.e. the non-death and non-life of non-white bodies, <i>fuck</i> that. White art, theory, and their progenitors need to address this rather arrogant loss of body: who has a body to begin with? White (authors') deaths matter.hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-31028105557037434442016-12-27T08:33:00.003-08:002016-12-27T08:58:59.345-08:00important steps for white people/white art: investigating colonial blood, encouraging divestment from racist practice.Found while googling "linnaeus taxonomy race"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px;"> from <a href="http://www.sashahuber.com/?cat=5&lang=fi&mstr=4">Sasha Huber</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px;">The primary incentive for my artistic work has been the exploration of my Swiss-Haitian roots and identity via colonial history. This approach has broadened out considerably to include a range of histories and postcolonial realities. </span><br />
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<em style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;">"As an artist Sasha is like a time travelling heroine who draws attention to historic trauma and its ramifications in the present."</em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px;"> Bruce E. Phillips, Seniour Curator, Te Tuhi, Auckland, NZ</span><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><br /></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px;">I think she does it better than <a href="https://henryart.org/exhibitions/isabelle-pauwels-incredibly-unbelievably-the-complete-ordered-field.">Isabelle Pauwels</a>. It would be great to see a white male do this kind of work.</span><br />
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See that last line? Nice! </div>
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Dated 3/7/14: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/07/sydney-biennale-chairman-quits-transfield-detention">Sydney Biennale chairman quits over company's links to detention centres</a>. </div>
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Ethics! Art! Wow!
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PS: I would love to un-euro-name <a href="http://www.sashahuber.com/?cat=10046&lang=fi&mstr=4"><i>every</i> mountain</a>. I call Mount Tahoma Mount Tahoma instead of Rainier to my daughter intentionally. I look to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/us/mount-mckinley-will-be-renamed-denali.html">Denali</a> as an example.</div>
hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-71526958098945874022016-12-27T05:41:00.000-08:002016-12-27T08:51:14.114-08:00dont underestimate taxonomic powerwhen you name something you have power over it a la adam. my favorites "so-called negro" and "asiatic," because 'we are what we are, but you want to put us in a box,' and 'asiatic' for solidarity reasons (see <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants.htm">housing covenants in the US</a> and 'whites only'/'no negros, jews, or mongoloids/mongolians' in the 1920s, see <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=linnaeus+taxonomy+race&espv=2&biw=1173&bih=857&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDwdr3vpTRAhUCh1QKHY2_AT8Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=_">Carl Linnaeus</a>)...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3F4NgXizKjqFj37VSviqrIBGL8oOR07pANIywNU1LBxIwMX7HdNGUNwTJW3swxODjzpNPPPH7pnrk_kBLh1phL92aBMc_c2PFKjSe9PuKXRIrQb8coVV_zSXof1XZViveGWY4Mrtj1ew/s1600/kameelah+janan+rasheed.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3F4NgXizKjqFj37VSviqrIBGL8oOR07pANIywNU1LBxIwMX7HdNGUNwTJW3swxODjzpNPPPH7pnrk_kBLh1phL92aBMc_c2PFKjSe9PuKXRIrQb8coVV_zSXof1XZViveGWY4Mrtj1ew/s640/kameelah+janan+rasheed.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<a href="http://www.kameelahr.com/nomenclature#/id/i11137432">Nomenclature, 2016, Presented at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) as part of the group show, The Arch of My Eye's Orbit (curated by Hrag Vartanian)</a>
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"Here, Rasheed pairs a grid of 21 framed prints bearing the terms uncovered in her research with a print of a 1967 Ebony magazine spread entitled, "What's in a Name?" where Lerone Bennett Jr. reprints Du Bois' 1928 editorial response in a gesture to reignite the national debate over naming. In doing so, Rasheed carries this conversation into the 21st century, suggesting that issues related to the language of taxonomies and their role in race relations in the US is anything but resolved."hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-21435361421989251772016-12-27T05:25:00.001-08:002016-12-27T05:25:41.427-08:00rad dark xmas cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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foreshadowing christ's betrayal and death? <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/261847/have-a-creepy-little-christmas-with-these-unsettling-victorian-cards/">via Hyperallergic.</a><br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-13121920270957502112016-12-19T22:37:00.001-08:002016-12-19T22:37:53.553-08:00uhum<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/346182/lgbtq-activists-attacked-by-trump-supporters-while-leaving-nyc-art-space/">http://hyperallergic.com/346182/lgbtq-activists-attacked-by-trump-supporters-while-leaving-nyc-art-space/</a>hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-71440451502992297622016-12-19T22:26:00.001-08:002016-12-19T22:26:39.748-08:00art link roundup<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-oaxacan-art-collective-is-bringing-las-missing-history-to-the-central-library-rotunda-7705532">Oaxacan artist collective 2017-2018 @ LA Central Library</a><br />
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On view from Sept. 16, 2017, to Jan. 31, 2018, “Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview” features commissioned work from Oaxacan artist collective Tlacolulokos [<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;">Darío Canul and Cosijoesa Cernas] </span>that will be on display at the Central Library’s rotunda. "</div>
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<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/arts/is-it-bad-timing-for-an-all-male-art-show-about-men-7732286" target="_blank">All-male-art-show (probably mostly white)</a>; <a href="http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/26/taking-the-measure-of-sexism-facts-figures-and-fixes/">see also, cited in article-sexism in art</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "serif12" , serif; font-size: 16px;">"while feminism has propelled women forward, men are stuck in a standstill...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: serif12, serif; font-size: 16px;">Hector thinks a big part of the problem is that men aren’t being asked the same questions as women. While feminism has pushed women to reevaluate their traditional roles in society, Hector thinks “there’s been a lack of having similar conversations with men.” She’s curious about how men talk and think about themselves.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/Exhibits/Vibrant-Beauty/">Color @ Tulalip</a><br />
Exploring color; exhibit geared toward Pre-K - 3rd Graders<br />
<br />hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-48071414528776330532016-12-19T20:42:00.001-08:002016-12-19T20:59:06.295-08:00hell yes (kristina wong, you do it and you do it and you do it. thank you.)<a href="http://blog.angryasianman.com/2016/09/7-ways-asian-americans-will-troll-art.html?m=1" target="_blank">kristina wong invades the art world</a><br />
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Rashid Johnson. Still fresh, still clean.</div>
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Installation view, <i>Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks</i>, MCA Chicago, Apr 14-Aug 5, 2012. Photo: Nathan Keay, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: MCA_10U, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18222200870513916px;">©</span> MCA Chicago.</div>
hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-233646451740796132016-12-08T04:06:00.001-08:002016-12-08T04:06:31.859-08:00fuck facebook.seriously, fuck facebook.<br />
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http://blog.angryasianman.com/2016/11/some-of-my-best-friends-are-white.html<br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WHITE</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you're not responsible for the other white people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i see you sharing</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">black lives matter! dope post!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i see you marching</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">on instagram! dope post!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i see you donating</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">to THE cause. dope post!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">your cousin in mountain view,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">your best friend from college,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">your aunt on your dad's side.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what his fascination with asian bodies got to do with you???</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what her view on black men in the club got to do with you???</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what auntie say about towelheads got to do with you???</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you got bills, career instability, failed romance, a painful relationship with your father, global fear, comparison judgment, and the new season of favorite tv show on your plate,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what more can be asked of you?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you already have a puerto rican friend,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you already teach kids who's future assignment is prison,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you already passed 2010's ally exam.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i get it. there's just not enough time for anything more.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">besides,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">it's not your responsibility.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and anyway, we know how hard you try.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">we're all trying so hard, i know.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">we are all frauds & failures & fucking wack</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">in the eyes of those who condemn us</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">to the color of our skin.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">we let ourselves be agents of hate,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as if the power of our silence at thanksgiving,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">in the boardroom,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">amongst shared ethnic background,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">will evolve from within</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what silence has yet to evolve</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">in anything.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">II.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought i could click like my way to evolution.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought revolution was proven on the internet.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought my face excused me from others' struggle.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought example would magically transform all i touched.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought writing the poem was the most i needed to do.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought all the world's problems separated by borders.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i thought responsibility was only what i did for myself.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you are not responsible for</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the other asian people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the aunt who still clutches her purse to acknowledge black.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the best friend from college whose best friends are now all white.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the cousin fucking his hate into the poorest nations on earth.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you are not responsible for</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the other asian people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you can talk your way out of any wrongdoing.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you can make believers out of anyone.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you can present like corporate long game.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you are only responsible</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for who you are.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">III.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you're not a coward.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you been living</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">in a reward system</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that erases</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">us all.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the roles we been assigned?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the comfort of our peers?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the traditions of our past?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the way our daily ignores color?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the narratives of war?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the truth of ongoing slavery?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the fear of facing our own hate?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the people against humanity?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the 8 men who rule over everyone?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the how that keeps failing truth?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when we gonna challenge the world made by our choices?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">don't worry,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">making buzzfeed rich</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">is probably enough.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">don't worry,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">becoming my friend</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">is probably enough.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">don't worry,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">sharing this</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">is probably enough.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">i mean,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">what else can you do?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you're not responsible</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for the other white people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you're only responsible</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for who you are.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and who knows</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">where you at</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">in understanding</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and who knows</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">whether this is something</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you listen to</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">or become</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">defensive about.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and who knows</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">their responsibility</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">waking</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">into the reality</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">we've lived</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the shared lie</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">we only have</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as much power as</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the masters give us.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">you're not responsible</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for the other white people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">keep saying it</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">until all the mirrors die.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">until there’s nothing left</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of us.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">- Beau Sia</span>hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-2417210271956379462015-12-05T02:23:00.000-08:002015-12-05T02:23:07.584-08:00Reparations for Yellow FeverKristina Wong, where you been all my life.<br />
<a href="http://kristinawong.com/blog/2014/05/04/full-episode-watch-kristina-wong-get-reparations-for-yellow-fever/">Asian Flava Flaaaaaaav, yeaaaaaaahhh white booyeee!</a>hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-65988458315900077642015-07-12T23:34:00.002-07:002015-07-12T23:34:15.552-07:00otherness-being the otherthe question is, how does one deal with (one's own) otherness? do you underscore it or eliminate it? what does that say about you?hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15434756075357746317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143641578985571684.post-77998213136174748482015-06-18T10:57:00.001-07:002015-06-24T18:31:02.456-07:00Eating the other<h2>
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Though speaking from the standpoint of his individual experience, Foucault voices a dilemma felt by many in the west. It is precisely that longing for the pleasure that has led the white west to sustain a romantic fantasy of the “primitive” and the concrete search for a real primitive paradise, whether that location be a country or a body, a dark continent or dark flesh, perceived as the perfect embodiment of that possibility.</div>
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Henri Rousseau inspired jungle fever drawing:<a href="http://davidleggett.tumblr.com/image/119693594698">http://davidleggett.tumblr.com/image/119693594698</a></div>
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Asian vaginas end racism!</div>
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Disturbing.<a href="http://elizabethaxtman.com/artwork/756726_Dark_Meat.html">Dark Meat</a></div>
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