Mat Laporte's Blog, page 40

"You know, the fact that we’re ruled by the money that owns the people who have the money that...

"You know, the fact that we’re ruled by the money that owns the people who have the money that rules itself” 

frequent listener first time caller and aaron carter by Sarah Rupp

frequent listener first time caller and aaron carter by Sarah Rupp:

22ndcenturylit:

frequent listener first time caller

do you hear me, loon? will you remember me, dog? I don’t mind the cold and the early mornings, it should have been like this all along. only without frequent visits to the cemetery, only it was before we stopped plugging our noses and jumping off the dock. my…

arabellesicardi:elanormcinerney:Cassandra Gillig | Desperate...

arabellesicardi:

elanormcinerney:

Cassandra Gillig | Desperate Living
Rebecca Brown | The Last Time I Saw You

I liked that I recognized Cassandra voice by the second line. Room mate synergy. Cassandra I miss you

"To get the revolutionary weight of that beauty, there must be some discussion of the painful reasons..."

“To get the revolutionary weight of that beauty, there must be some discussion of the painful reasons of Why Sleater-Kinney Matter So Much. The band began as a way of recording obscured lives, with Riot Grrrl serving a catalytic boost. They were women speaking to other women with their songs. They were making art for us. Their records showed that we mattered. Their success was emblematic, their critical validation totemic; Sleater-Kinney became a front line. Waging a war for a right to be, they pulled us out from the margins as they moved into the light. The hysteria in Tucker’s voice, the caustic edges in a Brownstein phrase—each word was an act of refusal: to be quiet, to be the good girl, to play a game set up for us to lose. Their sound illuminated what it was to be alive, be queer, be feminist, be disgusted by America, to lust for a dignity denied, to want to dance and revel in love and resist death. Sleater-Kinney didn’t mean something; they meant everything.”

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internetpoetry:by Ariel Roman, care...

internetpoetry:

by Ariel Roman, care of artistsagainstpoliceviolence


Tumblr: brb2012 Twitter&IG: arielcrisis

In light of Millions March NYC WE MUST CONTINUE. 

"The images were paired with quotes and titles from Black Surrealist poet/activist/ Aimé Césaire. I felt a strong connection to the themes of autonomy, post-colonial identity struggle and resistance in Césaire’s work when studying the images being disseminated from Ferguson. The images have been sourced and tightly cropped from online news sites. The hand-lettering was done by me." - Ariel Roman 

Sources and links where the original photos came from:

(1): Daily News (2): Int’l Business Times (3): Minn Public Radio (4): Int’l Business Times (5): Time (6): Baltimore Sun Darkroom

SUGGESTIONS FOR ROUNDABOUT READING

SUGGESTIONS FOR ROUNDABOUT READING :

anneboyer:

for when you do not want to read closely or faraway

Read the poem as something it isn’t. Read it as a constitution, love letter, or recipe. What happens if we remove from the poem our expectations of what a poem might be? Can you put together an IKEA bookshelf with it?

Read the poem…

GPDF148 : Felix Bernstein : patirarchy

gausspdf:

Felix Bernstein

patirarchy

2015

MOV

abandonedbuildings: ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme

abandonedbuildings: ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme:

 for “I love you” say fuck the police / for
“the fires of heaven” say fuck the police, don’t say
“recruitment” don’t say “trotsky” say fuck the police 
for “alarm clock” say fuck the police

raptureinrepose:Introduction to i, laminaria (moi,...

raptureinrepose:

Introduction to i, laminaria (moi, laminaire)

by Aime Cesaire, in ‘Lyric and Dramatic Poetry’.

Do Black Lives Matter?: Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten in Conversation

Do Black Lives Matter?: Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten in Conversation