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creativetime: We ♥ Adrian Piper. adrian piper - my calling...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:21:22 -0500

We ♥ Adrian Piper.

adrian piper - my calling (card) #2, 1986

the artist distributed when she felt was appropriate. she was mixed race.

"No one is so eager to gain new experience as he who doesn’t know how to make use of the old ones."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:59:48 -0500

“No one is so eager to gain new experience as he who doesn’t know how to make use of the old ones.”

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (via tattoolit)

"Touch pain with great curiosity."

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:32:15 -0500

“Touch pain with great curiosity.”

- Jorie Graham, from “Daphne” (via the-final-sentence)

liveunchained: “Black women have been doubly objectified—as black, as women; under white supremacy,...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:40:33 -0400

liveunchained:

“Black women have been doubly objectified—as black, as women; under white supremacy, under patriarchy. It has been the task of Black women artists to transform this objectification: to become the subject commenting on the meaning of the object, or to become the subject rejecting the object and revealing the real experience of being.”

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MIchelle Cliff (via theangryblackwoman)

Love, Locks, Laughter, Words, & Breath: I'm so conflicted by Kony 2012

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:20:53 -0500

Love, Locks, Laughter, Words, & Breath: I'm so conflicted by Kony 2012:

locksandglasses:

Of course the first thing that came to mind is the whole white savior thing. They made being an activist look really cool in the video and there were not that many people of color who appeared on camera… just saying

Then of course I don’t want to be a hater. Ignoring oppressed people simply…

Photo

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:06:37 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia: Luke Hillestad. Dead is...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:03:27 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Luke Hillestad. Dead is Dead.

http://lukehillestad.com/

darksilenceinsuburbia: Daniel Danger. Do we let it in, do we...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:22:35 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Daniel Danger.

Do we let it in, do we have a choice?, 2010.

Because they will take it back, piece by piece, 2010.

fractionmagazine: untitled by Salva López on Flickr.

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:21:23 -0500

fractionmagazine:

untitled by Salva López on Flickr.

darksilenceinsuburbia: Adel Kassem. A Lot, 2010. Acrylics on...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:19:04 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Adel Kassem. A Lot, 2010. Acrylics on paper, 30 x 23 cm.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documents Artist’s Social Media...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:05:24 -0500

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documents Artist’s Social Media Dissent
By Jason Silverman, wired.com

PARK CITY, Utah — Most art documentaries feature paintbrushes or chisels. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry opens with a surveillance camera.
Alison Klayman’s entertaining, compelling and thought-provoking film, which premiered at t…

blokkmovement: Happy Bday Angela! Activist, Scholar, Writer,...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:34:23 -0500

blokkmovement:

Happy Bday Angela!

Activist, Scholar, Writer, Professor and FBI’s most wanted

When Angela Davis strode on the political stage with her fist raised high and her iconic Afro standing higher, people noticed. She is a rebel and a revolutionary, a bookish philosopher who has lived out her theories with action and purpose.

Smart, stylish, eloquent and fearless, Davis never lets her style get in the way of the substance. Her life’s work has been built around issues of race, community and the criminal justice system. In the 70s, she was involved with The Black Panthers, but much of her energy was focused on what she termed the Prison-Industrial Complex, the systematic privatization of prisons as profit-making machines. This means the more people in prison, the more lucrative the business. Hence, the absurd increase in men (mostly poor, young, black) sent to U.S prisons in the last two decades.

Davis herself was on the run from the law in the 70s, following the murder of a California judge. Innocent, she went into hiding, which sparked a nationwide search and worldwide media attention, propelling her to the FBI’s most wanted list. Two months later, she was arrested in a motel in midtown Manhattan. Despite pressure from famous rightwing fear-mongers – Richard Nixon (who branded Davis a “terrorist”), the then California governor Ronald Reagan and rat-bag FBI director J Edgar Hoover – Davis became an international cause celebre. A global campaign called for her release and Aretha Franklin offered to post quarter of a million dollars in bail. She was acquitted in the end.

Angela Davis inspired people all over the world, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who recorded their song “Angela” on their 1972 album, Some Time in New York City. The Rolling Stones also wrote about Davis, recording the song “Sweet Black Angel” on their 1972 album, Exile on Main Street.

Davis is now a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university’s Feminist Studies Department. She is also the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working against the Prison-Industrial Complex.

www.theuniquecreatures.com

fractionmagazine: Fan Ho

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:35:43 -0500

fractionmagazine:

Fan Ho

jalousie: Hey America, I have a cute idea. At least sort out your health care system, hand gun...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:56:29 -0500

jalousie:

Hey America, I have a cute idea. At least sort out your health care system, hand gun violence, unemployment, public education, gay marriage, marijuana legislation and middle east conflict before you fuck around with the internet because lets face it, there are bigger issues in the world than someone uploading a photo with a musician in it.