May 2012
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is...”
– James A. Baldwin (via gorgeousmuslimah)
Just got back from visiting Chicago, gas was jacked up to $4.50 in the hood.
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Stuck in the airport
I’m trying to go see my mom cause she’s been stressed out, so I’m taking an extra day off work for Memorial Day and dropped money (that it later turned out I didn’t quite have) so I can go hug her for a few days. But I overslept and missed my flight and am chillin in the airport listening to awful music (for a minute it was Otis Redding and I had faith in humanity, but now...
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Feds Indict 105 In Tre Bloods Probe →
nakedcrip:
firesandwords:
readnfight:
And if anyone wants to read about what’s going on in my neighborhood and what I’m starting to feel doomed about, here. I don’t like dogs to begin with, never have, but especially when a suburb with its own notorious drug problem (but it’s mostly white kids so we don’t talk about it) has sent a K-9 unit into my neighborhood and the dog is barking outside...
Q: What did the slutwalker say to the video ho?
… nevermind, I don’t even want to make up a punchline.
(Alternatively, white-centered feminism is its own punchline.)
Funny, though, how when white women reclaim “slut”/any similar sexuality it’s revolutionary and empowering and we’re clearly stupid if we don’t take part, but when women of color do it they are brainwashed and manipulated and have no...
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So I'm making a zine called 'The Black Feminist...
strugglingtobeheard:
so-treu:
ladyatheist:
pleadingthefilth:
recycleyrself:
blck-grrl:
If any PoC/WoC would like to participate/give their 2 cents please do so! Submissions are open
(Although it’s the Black feminist manifesto, I want it to be inclusive to all non black PoC/WoC! I will probably end up changing the title a bit to reflect that, but right now this gets the point...
BEING BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL.
navigatethestream:
wretchedoftheearth:
(I wonder how many notes this can get before it’s derailed by “so is being white”)
(it wont take long. because white can be beautiful and pins won’t drop. but soon as brown is beautiful everybody wants to make it rain in this bitch)
Or before it becomes about the fact you said “bitch”, and that is a HUGE DEAL compared to talking about...
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haakev2 asked: is it ok for me to reblog what you wrote about ebony/shepard fairey?
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Feds Indict 105 In Tre Bloods Probe →
And if anyone wants to read about what’s going on in my neighborhood and what I’m starting to feel doomed about, here. I don’t like dogs to begin with, never have, but especially when a suburb with its own notorious drug problem (but it’s mostly white kids so we don’t talk about it) has sent a K-9 unit into my neighborhood and the dog is barking outside my window at 5...
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EBONY Magazine Commissions Street Artist Shepard... →
I posted this link on facebook today, pointing out that Shepard Fairey has made his career from exploiting work by people of color, that he’s been allowed status as a gallery-worthy artist for doing what is considered vandalism when done by youth of color (and let’s face it, with considerably less talent), and that I’m disappointed that Ebony missed the opportunity to commission...
i feel at this rate
navigatethestream:
fivelettered:
i have to find another partner.
i’m infinitely too affectionate for just one person, and it doesn’t help my only other gf has other partners too.
but what good is it when i don’t meet people i want to be around very often at all?
#queerwomenofcolorproblems
hell i would at least like to find ONE partner who shows up to a date on time sans track suits
but...
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We don't often talk about how black women and... →
strugglingtobeheard:
lovewashername:
nor is there discussion about how this is a growing happening in other countries like Canada, where I’m at.
The only stats you find are about white girls and white women. Only research you find has very little to do with black women and girls interaction with the criminal justice system, legislation and penalties. The connections and intersections to be...
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popca replied to your post: Camille’s summer to-do list
omg whaaat about that third point i am very interested in what’s going on there
Check this out & let’s go together!
Welcome to APOCalypse – a national Anarchist People of Color Convergence Posted on January 4, 2012 Survival Strategies for the New Millennium July 12th – 15th, 2012 New Orleans, Louisiana
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Camille's summer to-do list
write issue #4 of Readin & Fightin
make $$ painting skate decks instead of working
go to APOC get-together in New Orleans
buy a Bedazzler
I feel like that’s enough.
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yesterday, walking into BART @ powell at like...
feral-femme:
i walk past a dude who is cat calling every woman walking by:
“yOOOOO! that girl has a mustache!” (as i’m walking down the stairs away from him, yelling back) “yeah! i do have a mustache! i’m not a girl tho!” “if you say so! but your mustache looks so fine! it’s hot! i like it!” (having to yell pretty loud at this point) “i know! my mustache is fucking hot!” “i’m not disagreeing!...
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teenboystuff replied to your post: got into an argument with my parents about referring to black americans as a group called the ‘black community’ I was wondering if you know of resources about why or why not this would be a racist assignation. the context was in referring to voter demographics and I got fed up with them referring to black obama supporters as ‘the black community.’ in lieu of...
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Anonymous asked: got into an argument with my parents about referring to black americans as a group called the 'black community' I was wondering if you know of resources about why or why not this would be a racist assignation. the context was in referring to voter demographics and I got fed up with them referring to black obama supporters as 'the black community.' in lieu of resources, maybe...
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audiodopexx asked: You're badass! I wish I had teachers like you when I was in school.
on the OBEY thing
bad-dominicana:
fivelettered:
fromonesurvivortoanother:
has anyone else noticed that white folks are always quick to jump into these 1984 “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” things, as if it’s so cool and they need something to resist so that they can feel edgy and rebellious?
meanwhile, People of Color and other oppressed groups could care less because they’ve dealt with shit like that their...
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Dark skin is beautiful.
bluestalkingstitches:
cosmicyoruba:
sensationnalisme:
battle-studies:
m0roccan:
mayflowrs:
*All skin colors are beautiful
^THANK YOU
A Black woman made that post empowering herself and other Black people who are deemed inferior by Euro-centric beauty ideals. Correcting her post is derailing and inappropriate.
lol, I don’t understand these ppl sometimes.
#cant have anything
OP...
hnknta:
i think u.s. history from a black perspective should be renamed to so heres what really happened
At the school where I work we call that Real Talk with Miss Camille. Someone left me in charge of their social studies class last week and I tossed out the assignment and declared it Real Talk time.
Downloading Bukka White alongside Rihanna. I need to learn how to make mashups and get psyched on the spectrum of black music.
Conditions
If I say, “I hate when dogs shit on my lawn,” do I really need to specify that I don’t mean every single dog ever has shit on my lawn? No, I can expect people to think enough to know it is a trend I have observed repeatedly but am not projecting on every dog that has ever existed.
Which is why I similarly am not interested in putting conditions on what I actually mean in order...
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guerrillamamamedicine replied to your post: Young men of color who make me not totally hate everyone and young women of color who will be RUNNIN SHIT some day soon so watch out
thank you! this totally made my day! god. i fucking love kids.
I’m glad, cause I want you to have awesome days! I always tell people that I like working with high schoolers, especially the ones I work with closest...
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“Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and...”
– Audre Lorde (via unapproachableblackchicks)
One of my students decided we should both read Native Son. I finally finished it this weekend. This is exactly what the entire book makes me think about, particularly how black men are capable of victimizing other black people in order to assert their...
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Young men of color who make me not totally hate...
What I love about working with teenagers is being able to see them grow over time, or even just over the course of a conversation. My kids’ willingness to just blurt things out means I’m hearing their thoughts—and sometimes I really don’t need to (“Miss Camille, I gotta go take a huge doo-doo”, Great, thanks for sharing), but often that means I’m getting...
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LOLing: Calling it "infighting" implies we're...
When I point out racism within, say, feminism or queer liberation or anarchism, and people call that infighting. It confirms my suspicions that we weren’t really in the same fight to begin with.
Fight against what whiteness does for you in this society and we can talk.
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Ignorance (is a poor excuse)
biyuti:
So that thread going on about cis people being ignorant of what ‘cis’ means and generally not knowing all the ‘politically correct’ things. And that we should be polite and forgiving, I guess if someone is using the wrong language or whatever.
There is a reason why focusing on impacts, rather than intent, is important. To use an analogy that I think Riley has before…
If you are...
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Illustrated Classics of African-American... →
Found this via Imprint Design blog. (Where’s my brother at and can we work on stuff like this?)
“Did you just fart in my office? Nobody farts in this office but ME!”
– Followed by a chorus of, “Ewwwww, Miss Camille!”
What is professionalism? Who trusted me to spend time with freshman boys and not just encourage them to be even more gross?
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire →
popca:
i was so hell bent on getting a physical copy of one of his books that i didn’t even bother to google an online version. here is one!
Hot damn.
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Highlight of my day was mediating a conversation between three freshmen boys who I work with a lot, because the hip-hop dance crew they’re starting and running all on their own couldn’t agree on something in their routine, so they were going to break up. So we sat in the cafeteria while everyone else had left, and talked about how to work as a team and compromise and set goals together...
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troubledsigh replied to your post: re: White people at work
I just watched a video of steve harvey crying, it improved my mood tremendously!
Ha ha nice. Watching Battle of Algiersis usually my go-to cure, but I just downloaded God’s Son by Nas and that’s getting the same done and I’ll bring it to work.
re: White people at work
miswritten said: so much love and respect. xo.
baddominicana said: *hugs*
nuestrahermana said: I love you and thank you.
popca said: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh white folks
Thanks thanks thanks y’all! I don’t even want to go to work, I don’t even want to deal with white teachers who I pick up the slack for to come around asking me questions again that they aren’t ready to...
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Ooops, when I said that white people made me cry at my job, I was supposed to saySOMEwhite people, right?
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((sike))
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Dear American teens,
positivelypersistentteach:
savesteveholt:
there is no such phrase as “wouldn’t of”.
I think you mean “wouldn’t have”.
Learn to speak your own language, thanks.
I suggest you read the book The Skin We Speak by Lisa Delpit. It might teach you a little bit about language, different venues we use it and the “rules” that we follow based on the situation, and how better to approach...
White people made me cry at work today
Like invited me specifically to take part in some conversation about diversity at our school, paid all this lip service to the work I do and the conversations I have with students of color, wanted to talk about ways to improve the climate in the school…but then got mad defensive when I started making suggestions based on things I talk about with their students and all jumped on me. And...
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lexmix asked: I have a question about your list of books by women of color. Are those all non-fiction books?
April 2012
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Small forms of resistance in slavery
afrodiaspores:
jcoleknowsbest:
sourcedumal:
strugglingtobeheard:
howtobeterrell:
blk women would nurse to avoid sexual advances from massa
cooks would put broken glass in the food
field hands would take their time (colored peoples time)
*If you know more add more
this is just a small way black people resisted slavery everyday
house slaves would communicate about meetings in a...
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(Fixed the formatting so this posts legibly.)
Complicating the Wage Gap in the US—looking at sex and race I’m trying to study up on ways to visualize important information like this, and to bust myths with facts instead of just griping about them (although griping is important too).
All statistics come from US Dept. of Labor. I made all charts in LibreOffice. The purpose of looking at...
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There’s a rumor going around school that I was hiding out in our office eating 6 slices of pizza the other day (it was actually just 2), so now a bunch of boys have nicknamed me Six Slice. I’m okay with that.
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It has finally dawned on me. We need the trans*...
biyuti:
queernonymoose:
biyuti:
Seriously.
Many of us TPoC have essentially washed our hands of the trans* community because of its glaring whiteness problem.
And I want something else to call us and name or identity that will allows us a short form of recognizing each other and where we stand with this (something beyond the more individual labels… I guess we TPoC umbrella term that isn’t...
“Can I make a comment? I think you drink too much coffee.”
– Concerned student (via teachingtoday)
I get variations on “Miss Camille, you’re really drinking all that coffee” / “Why do you smell like coffee” / “What would you do if I stole your thermos”? about once a week at least. My standard answer is that denying...