October 2011
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“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her...”
– Audre Lorde
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“I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with...”
– Gloria Anzaldua
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“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and...”
– Robert Frost
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“It’s a free country, but: I need a license to drive, a license to work, a permit...”
– Eris Pandora
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“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J.D. Salinger
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Žižek: Occupy first. Demands come later. →
“The [Occupy..] protesters should beware not only of enemies, but also of false friends who pretend to support them but are already working hard to dilute the protest. In the same way we get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice-cream without fat, those in power will try to make the protests into a harmless moralistic gesture.”
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“To go inside yourself and to encounter no one for hours—this you will have to be...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. Mark Harman
“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life,...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“To imply, however, that all womyn suffer the same oppression simply because we...”
– Audre Lorde, An Open Letter to Mary Daly
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Patience, young one. You can do this.
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“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate...”
– bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
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“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a...”
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings
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“The future belongs to the impure…to those who are ready to take in a bit...”
– Stuart Hall, “Subjects in History: Making Diasporic Identities”, The House That Race Built.
