some new patches up @ clitpit ! we’ve got a witch, a j, and a wasp-man. they are a dollar and if you buy more than one the shipping is more worth it. check it out bbs.
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Published on May 3, 2013
Watch the full interview with Angela Davis on Democracy Now! athttp://owl.li/kGdcY. The legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis tells Democracy Now! that the FBI’s adding of former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists List exemplifies a longstanding “racialization” of terrorism in the United States, and an effort to deter the young activists Shakur has inspired today. “When the grandchildren of those who were active in the late ’60s and early ’70s are becoming involved in similar movements today, there is this effort to again terrorize young people by representing such an important figure as Assata Shakur as a terrorist,” Davis says. “Before the Tsarnev brothers were discovered to be the alleged perpetrators [of the Boston Marathon bombings], there was an attempt to present the person who planted the bomb as either a black man or a dark skinned man with a hoodie. This racialization of what is represented as terrorism is an attempt to bring the old-style racism into the conversation with modes of repression in the 21st century.”
In 1998, Democracy Now! aired the audio of Assata Shakur reading her open letter she wrote to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba in 1998 after the FBI asked him to urge her extradition. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/democracynow/a…
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aeonum asked: hey! I was wondering what inspired/influenced your installation of little yellow notes? it's super rad x
hey thanks! i was thinkin about felix gonzalez torres’s stacks and also perzines. i wrote the stories a while ago for my thesis, was thinkin a lot about multiplicity and contradiction of queer existence, like about gloria anzaldua and her new mestiza, reading this bridge called my back and having feelings, immigrant stuff, mourning, magical realism as a queer discourse. understanding an identity thru the pieces and fictions they send out into the world. dunno how much is even present, but that stuff was influencing my brain anyway :)
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pix of the notes stack installed on a little shelf with a little plant, taken by katie. (thanks bb!) ‘when did we start growing apart?’ is written on the wall behind, appears as the stack gets shorter
