decolonize

“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”

— Ricardo Flores Magon

if you are not actively protecting yourselves from covid by wearing a high quality mask in public you need to acknowledge right here and right now that your present practices are entirely at odds with your future selves.

mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!

the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!

but rent is due! assist if you can.
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paypal: @upsettingthesetup

"we are not savage, we verbalize in a different language, our lands ravished, us in poverty, them living lavish, why does it continue? indigenous people considered below average."

-dr. faustus of algorithm

"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."

-Noam Chomsky

“Why can’t I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It’s hard enough just to do that in this world.”

-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

"The most difficult thing to get people to do is accept the obvious." -Dick Gregory

mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!

the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!

but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup

"Each problem that we face is just a part of this movement,
It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it,
And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted,
And wake humanity from these illusions."

-Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea

“I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the Earth.”

-Frantz Fanon

"water, water, water to drink,
what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink?
competition in the sky,
first man on the moon,
artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..."

-sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)

“The fight against racism and fascism is completely bound up with the fight to overthrow capitalism, the system that breeds both."

-Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)

"Trying to explain white privilege to white people is sometimes like trying to explain water to fish. Fish says, ‘there is no water, I've never seen any, water never did nothing for me’ meanwhile its the thing that sustains the fish's very life..."

-Cory Kilcoyne

in memory and celebration of assata shakur i’m riding my bike around berkeley/oakland listening to my “assata taught me” playlist.

*what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.”

-Michel Foucault

“I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror.” — Assata Shakur (2007)

Murder Incorporated - Dreaming of Empire: Book One

“Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the 'wretched of the earth,' have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.”

― Mumia Abu-Jamal

“I feel as our African friends do that we need all ideologies which point toward the total liberation of the African peoples all over the world."

-Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965)

most of my relationships are at best acquaintances and i’m honestly not all that moved to sustain them shits.

the way you’re still not wearing a high quality mask in the face of an entirely normalized mass disabling and eugenics event in a society that otherwise demonstrates its capacity for unapologetic inhumanity signifies how not serious you are about individual and our collective survival.

When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.

facebook screenshot from 18h ago that reads: Jimmy Kimmel was pulled from the air indefinitely for his remarks about CK. I don’t feel bad. White people need to get fed up. White people are going to have to be casualties of the white supremacy they uphold if y’all want this shit to fall.

what creighton leigh said!

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."

-Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son—we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” —Ella Baker

This absolutely breaks my heart.

screenshot from threads that reads: @beth.kao So COVID has hit our household. My 12 year old, who vigilantly wears a KN95 every day at school (and is one of the very very very few kids who mask at school), on the bus, and in any public indoor spaces, came down with it first. He was so tearful when his COVID test turned positive, and sobbed, "I'm so sorry I got the baby sick!" (He's referring to his baby brother.) MY SWEET, SWEET CHILD! It is NOT your fault! You did everything that you could. One-way masking is helpful, but it's not 100% 1/ Especially when COVID cases are RAMPANT. It really broke my heart that he took his getting sick as his own failing, when it was really the rest of society and our public health institutions that have failed us. This post is about the CDC's messaging around COVID mitigation strategies, especially their lack of emphasis on masking with well-fitting respirators like N95s, KN95s, and KF94s.

i read this and cried simply because children never consented to being sacrificed to covid for capitalism!

Strong words, but sometimes those are necessary so we take notice and do what we have to to protect ourselves. #COVID

"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism."

@miamingus.bsky.social

"You will remain a commodity as long as the Empire exists." - Russell Means