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ghanailoveyou: Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:48:11 -0400

Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, Afro-futurist theorist and film-maker. Eshun’s writing deals with cyberculture, science fiction and music and how they intersect with the African diaspora. Eshun’s book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction was published in 1998, written a style that makes extensive use of neologism, re-appropriated jargon and compound words. The book explores the intersection of black music and science fiction from an afrofuturist viewpoint. In that book, Kodwo Eshun devised a unique page-numbering system, beginning in negative numbers (e.g.-01[-017]). In 2002, Eshun also co-founded The Otolith Group, an artist collective, with Anjalika Sagar.

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…wait for it, wait for it… (This is what happens...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:53:52 -0400

…wait for it, wait for it…

(This is what happens when you take an Auditory Culture class. Thanks NOK!)

This is also true <3 Swag status: One hundred million.

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:14:49 -0400

This is also true <3

Swag status: One hundred million.

This is true. I don’t care WHAT you say. <3 bim.

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:12:44 -0400

This is true. I don’t care WHAT you say. <3

bim.

phoneasmedium: Tom Pregiato for phone arts - rad rocks bim.

Thu, 02 May 2013 02:54:53 -0400

phoneasmedium:

Tom Pregiato for phone arts - rad rocks

bim.

I grant permission for 3 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA’s. bim.

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:38:42 -0400

I grant permission for 3 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA’s.

bim.

"We have shows like 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation struggling to stay on every season, and shows..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:14:11 -0400

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We have shows like 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation struggling to stay on every season, and shows like Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory having no trouble at all. Shows like the latter two, which capitalize on trivializing women and their roles or attempting to put them in “their place,” become the most popular and successful shows on TV. So this poses a grander question: Why does our society enjoy sexism so much? Or, more importantly, why is our supposedly progressing world so opposed to breaking this sexist quo? You might say that it doesn’t matter – it’s just a TV show. But it’s not “just” anything. Everything matters, especially television. Everyone enjoys television, and until that arena of entertainment can employ more ladies and create shows that demonstrate the depths of different types of characters – women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community – our society that is so incredibly susceptible to what’s on that silver screen is going to continue to inherently absorb sexism.

So when shows like 30 Rock go off the air, that precious air time is replaced by shows that still present women as sex objects, dumb blondes, nagging wives, emotional coworkers, or ugly neighbors. We, unfortunately, still live in a world where a show run by women is a landmark, but we have to hold tight to those landmarks and make sure they keep breaking down those discriminatory norms.

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- Anisha Ahuja, I’m Sad 30 Rock Ended (And Why You Should Be Too) on Feminspire.com (via feminspire)

This moved me to sublime tears. Thanks for sharing with me,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:24:00 -0400

This moved me to sublime tears.

Thanks for sharing with me, Rylee. <3

tzintzuntzan: Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:05:13 -0400

tzintzuntzan:

Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

bim.

Beyonce Art History

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:47:54 -0400

Beyonce Art History:

Art Meets Queen B

bim.

breathemystardust: pleiadian-princess: radagastlovesyou: you-...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:47:24 -0400

breathemystardust:

pleiadian-princess:

radagastlovesyou:

you-are-another-me:

There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it.

And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song.

In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them.

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

This is the most amazing thing I have ever read.

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL IM ALMOST TEARING UP

Truly touching…I got chills…<3

What a Fool Believes

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:12:51 -0400

He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don’t see
Tryin’ hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life

She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go

But what a fool believes … he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems … to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him …

Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there’s a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go

But what a fool believes … he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems … to be
Is always better than nothing
There’s nothing at all
What seems … to be
Is always better than nothing
There’s nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees …
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems … to be
Is always better than nothing