Ntozake Shange School of Literary Thought

 

 

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Ntozake Shange School of Literary Thought

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letter from sistergirl iresha,

Peace,

I started a black women's writer collective earlier this summer called "Ntozake Shange School of Literary Thought" (named after the author Ntozake Shange "She who walks with Lions/has her own") and we spent most of the summer reading a lot of great texts by Black feminist authors and writing through various exercises. One of the woman suggested that we write our Yoni )meaning our Vaginas) Narratives (think Vagina Monologues, but with more color!) and we compiled them into a pamphlet. We have hard copies with a pretty lilac color as well…Please circulate and pass along!!!

Thanks,

Iresha

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Iresha Picot, M.Ed
Urban Education: School to Community Partnerships, Temple University '09

Applied Behavioral Analysis/BCBA, Post-Masters Cert., Arcadia University '11

"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
— Alice Walker

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Hello ladies! I've submitted before but I've changed my URL and things.
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Out of Order

 

 

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Out of Order

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How come the way my people see the world is "Magic Realism" while the way you see it gets to just be reality? Even with all the fake borders you've created, yours still gets to be the real that "makes sense."

FYI…

Carl Linnaeus was an asshole.

Taxonomies are the opposite of life.

 

 

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Everett Anderson's Goodbye as Read by Assata

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Part of the Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School in Durham, NC

"It’s a lot easier to sit around brooding about how much you suck and how yo...

 

 

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"It’s a lot easier to sit around brooding about how much you suck and how you’ll never amount to..."

via maia medicine on 9/21/10

"It's a lot easier to sit around brooding about how much you suck and how you'll never amount to anything than it is to go after something you want, and possibly fail. It's called "fear," and it's normal. It's also called "life," and sometimes it's hard."

- sars is just the fucking smartest. (via isabelthespy)

 

 

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curate: “When I’m in L.A., I’m not a AG. In LA., I’m a stud. In...

QBG Krys!!!!

 

 

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curate:

"When I'm in L.A., I'm not a AG. In LA., I'm a stud. In the Bay, I'm still a stud, sorta. In circles where there are elders, it's butch. If it's primarily a white circle, it's butch. I don't even like to call myself a lesbian because I feel like it's politicized. Well, I could be. Some people think I'm a lesbian. It's a fair assumption. I like women.

"I do this work as a way of rebuilding myself. Because I have the access, the privilege and the brain space to try and manage it. I float. I float. And I'm sort of a chameleon so I tend to use the language of the people that I'm speaking with. Code switching is what they call it."

Queer Oakland: The Phenomenon that is Krys Freeman | Oakland Local

 

 

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darksilenceinsuburbia:American Beauty, 1940 by Jack Delano

 

 

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darksilenceinsuburbia: American Beauty, 1940 by Jack Delano

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American Beauty, 1940 by Jack Delano

 

 

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My patience grows thinner each time someone says “Invisibly Native” and mean...

 

 

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My patience grows thinner each time someone says “Invisibly Native” and means...

via Liquor&Spice on 9/20/10

My patience grows thinner each time someone says "Invisibly Native" and means "white-looking person." Euro-Native people seem hella visible to us bastard children who happen to be the wrong kinda "mixed blood." Seminole nation still has the nerve to say "Black Seminole" is a misnomer and they don't really exist. Ok, sure. Even though Seminole = anglicized Cimarrón = "escaped slave" in Spanish.We formed these nations together through partnership and enslavement.

But my blood doesn't really count, does it?

 

 

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