Aimée: Socialist Butterfly

Photo by RJ
The short roads never end
Bend.
Back first, head second
Me third.
MY NATIONALITY:
I was born in Nairobi, Kenya, I grew up in Lusaka, Zambia and in my family, we are all from Gikongoro, Rwanda . I mourn the loss of unity and pride in Kenya, for the cheapening of our traditions by Big Media giants, in order to imprint false ideas of our worth! I mourn because of the divisive tribal illusion that has been forced upon Rwandan people by their European oppressors, for the millions who lost their lives under false banners and labels, while the European imperialist oppressor continues to rape even more until this day. And I hurt as I watch my Zambian family in turmoil over power-hungry leaders and disillusioned masses, over the capitalism disease that has poisoned the policies that were first meant to help and heal. Always I will love Africa, always will it be my home, and always will I work to liberate Africa and other true nations from the new capitalist world order; the one that rapes and starves out new, ancient and willing Native governments who want nothing more but to provide for their people what they deserve and to enjoy the rewards of their own labor. I am against the notion that somehow the rest must be dominated by the west in order to progress...I believe that disadvantaged people hold no less talent and intellect than those of the Ivy Leagues and the Corporations...I stand by my sisters and brothers in the demands for our land and liberation! Universal Liberation! Universal Reparations! I believe that WE can govern ourselves just fine without Western Imperialist Patronizing Patriarchal Bullshit!!!
MY RACE:
I am against the institutionalized idea of my inferiority! I am against the business of beauty and definition of propriety by our education, media, religion and justice systems. I am against the systematic erasure of indigenous history in communities of Colored peoples from all different nations. I am against two book shelves at Borders and Barnes and Noble, telling me what my literature ought to be. I am against the sexual objectification of my body, against the 'exoticizing' of my body, against making my hair, my skin and yes, my gap all "foreign". I am for bald heads and my own "nappy" roots, I am for free growing locs, I am for jojoba oil and rosemary oil, and I am for wraps, lots of head wraps! I am for the beautification of me, against the "color-blindness" of society that tells me that everything isn't geared towards giving me an inferiority complex... I am not for just a progress...I am for a revolution!
I am for never justifying unjust hatred...
MY SEXUALITY:
I am Bisexual, Sexually Fluid, GenderQueer, Undefined and Undetermined, I am neither this nor that, at any given time I am the sum of all my understandings, conditions and behaviors. My sexuality, my love has not developed anatomical bounds, no racial, religious, or cultural bounds. I believe in openness and I've released myself of forced shame, I am bigger than the taboo, I see no taboos in sexuality. I believe in person, in heart, in connection and always in love. I look to fill no roles, I do not aim to be wife nor husband, only a lover. I believe in unity and commitment and I ask that you all remain in solidarity with our LGBTTS sisters and brothers our Polyamorous families... and please continue to demand liberation from the capitalist institutions of Marriage and Family!! Remember that the master's tools will never dismantle his house... MARRIAGE is the WRONG goal, demand LIBERATION!
CLICK HERE FOR "SISTER OUTSIDER" by Audre Lorde
I LOVE and secretely hope to become EDDIE IZZARD...my dream
I am also a Deltoro -sexual...ha

he looks quite nice

Shingai is a beautiful dream...

I am always a Shingai -sexual!
MY GENDER
I am anatomically female. My gender reads like woman, but my understanding is more queer than an over-simplified binary, a polar mess that restricts my experience.
MY EDUCATION:
I was first educated by the words of my mother and father, they are both great thinkers who have instilled in me, the wisdom and strength to discover all things about myself and my surroundings. I attended L'école Francaise De Lusaka in Zambia from kindergarten until fifth grade where I learned alongside many Rwandan, Burundian, Congolese,Ethiopian,French, Belgian, American, Indian and Lebanese persons. I look back wishing that our diversity would be coupled with equality, but I now understand that the systems in place and the people who control them will not allow that world to exist...we must all work to change this. I have learned from our literature that my ideas are not unlike those of Lorde, Lumumba, Senghor, DuBois, Davis, Trotsky, Marx, Luxemburg, Indira Ghandi, the Newtons and the Kings...I've been mentored by Mark Pesusich, who gave me the knowledge to observe and analyze the world, and the confidence to put myself out into the real world, . From my mentor Robin Crawford I have learned to trust the me that I see, to adore my upbringing and to remember, always remember the story behind my epistemology, to remember and respect perspectives...from my mentor Jesse Benjamin I learned to always observe history, to always consider the peoples history, to read and read and read and grow, always grow. I learned to reject the dominant ideology of self-other hierarchy and to resist biologizing, naturalizing, essentializing and equalizing and universalizing...to never legitimize power structures that are created on stolen land, by stolen labor! With their energy's help I better understand my positionality and I now realize that the television and the computer screen are nothing but a series of pictures...real happenings are EXPERIENCED where they are tangible and not manipulated...in real life. I now learn from everyone and everything around me, from philosophers,saints, prophets and demons, from children, moons, fields and wolves...the world is my school, and I do study at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, where my major is Sociology of Cultural Diversity and my minor is Gender and Women's Studies. I understand that being a non-white, non-male, non-hetero, puts me in a position where I MUST experience race, gender and sexuality everyday in order to navigate. From my studies I learn about ethnicity and its manipulation to pit mankind against itself, politics and the blood it sucks out of humanity, the lies the exploitation, the intent... about gender and its very significant insignificance, the attempts to limit gender, to dehumanize based on gender and the power that sex holds. I wish to change, to overthrow, to eliminate the sick epistemology that dominates the world systems...to bring into our open space the issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability, age, and class...to discuss, to argue, and to resolve the issues that plague the many who fall into the category of "outsider"
my friends, LIVE the issue and be the solution
MY SPIRITUALITY:
I am a free-thinking non-believer, a COEXISTIST moral, conscious, fair in my own right. I do not believe in god, the ultimate crutch, scapegoat, and an undying source of false supremacy. I do respect belief yet I stand firmly by the idea that morality is possible without a goddess or god and that good must be for the sake of good. I do believe in life-force, I do believe in ambiance, I believe in perpetuity. I glorify earth, sanctify the wind, I let the leaves and dirt be my heaven as earth. I worship logic and passion, camaraderie and community, my altars are lit with flames of truth, held up by the hands of Mansa and dear Sojourner. I cannot align myself with any god(s), as she/he/they are to me no more than an escape from accountability and human creation..I believe in natural force... I am also against the constant faulty programming of impressionable minds, leading them to believe that human beings are ranked in any way, money receiving praise businesses that make a good buck guilting people into donating hard-earned funds to build monuments,against the shadows of the 'Protestant work ethic'. And I do support the message of coexistence , plurality, equality and one-ness in and outside of all A/Mono/PolyTheistic faiths.
MY DIET:
I am vegan (anti-animal cruelty) against the mass exterminating of defenseless animals, hunted, raised in 4X4 crates, deformed and endlessly pained, so that everyone can have a Big Mac, completely unaware that a whole species of animals is being mutated for a business that serves to kill them, then kill you. Against mass consumerism and strange apathy. Against exterminating nature. Against the destruction of our rain forest to raise cattle to be slaughtered, against subsidies to grow nothing but corn, corn and more corn. I am pro-leafy greens! I am against steroids in animals and against fish farming, I am against breeding poultry to be large and colorless, against the destruction of good genes to produce meats that are appealing to masses of people who will most likely waste the flesh on their plates.
WE ARE NOT VEAL!
MY POLITICS:
I am Socialist ,(anti-capitalism)against a system that grows as 98% of the world sinks into oblivion. A system that supports the corporation over the individual life, a system that teaches us that money, paper and metals are far more important than a world in crisis...a system that erases histories and feeds on the futures of the countless people that fall victim as they stand in the way of IT and the black gold. One where millenia of communist hiSTORY are erased and the world begins in 1492.I do not live for oil! my body is not running on black gold or Chiquita Bananas or tainted Ethiopian coffee that leaves that entire nation famished. I am against inside jobs by the U.S. government to paralyze the nation's citizens with fear...irrational fears of people from some "orient" coming down in planes, destroying out structures, I am against the businesses that profit from such fears, against the Carlyle group and the Bush men, the Rockerfeller men, NEWSCORP and General Electric, Westinghouse and the great madness, the racist WALLSTREET and the racist FREE TRADE...against Halliburton and contracts that look better the more lives lost on a U.S. built and controlled battlefield. I will not be part of the new corporate world-order and no! I will not shop at the GAP! I will not benefit from the exploitation of Asians simply because Wal-Mart would like to offer me "incredible" prices...I stand by mine and socialism's strong views against racism and sexism and the businesses that benefit from these notions, as they justify colonizing and enslaving persons through domestic,industrial and sexual labor, still, in the 21st century. I am against the notion that humans are naturally greedy and that the world cannot change and progress itself into a new socialist state. Housing, Food, Education and Health care have become luxuries in a land where pharamacy is a booming business and the homeless are an abandoned shame. We are capable of so much more as a human race, rather than focus our energies on acquiring material goods, we could do endless good to this world and its future.
MY FEMINISM:
(anti-patriarchy)
against a societal defect that gives the illusion that penises and vaginas somehow allow people to ONLY wear, love and live certain things/ways...a system that tells us that we are not all true human beings. One in which my body and those of my sisters are thought of as property, property to be exploited, sold and raped, bodies to be objectified and dehumanized for the pleasure of INDUSTRY. And I am for the radical notion that women ARE human beings and that we are not defined by our anatomy or physiology, by our choices of dress or undress, or by our professions. I am for the radical notion that no deity in it correct mind would ever render our sex secondary to that of any other sex. I am for INTERSEXUALITY as a reality and a norm instead of a stigmatized "condition" that is often cut and drugged out of existence. I am for GENDER-QUEER livelihoods, definitions outside of the man/woman dichotomy, I reject all dichotomies!So I declare myself to be more than a child-bearing machine, more than a sex-object, more than marital property, more than a vessel for scattered, uncontrolled emotions... I MUST EMOTE

...I declare myself to be a woman, wise and sane in her own right, evidence of the intellect, control and compassion that is within every woman and man. I am pro-choice...firmly against giving anyone the right to determine the fate of a woman's body, but herself. The ethics of choice cannot be ignored!
AND WHY IS OUR PAIN JUSTIFIABLE
MY HOPE:
I am also pro-equality (anti-racism/sexism/homophobia/persecution)against the insane notion that somehow some of us were made more equal than others, when in truth, we are all human citizens of the planet, and class, color, religion and sex and orientation are labels used to aid us, while impairing us...by building biases and making judgments, so that our positionality in this world can be justified. I am not colorblind however, it is a naive concept because like everyone else I am programmed to notice color and genitalia at first sight, and I fight everyday to stop that from influencing my decisions. I push for the abolition of marriage's ties to policy, so not to alienate couple's that do not fit the dominant religious descriptions of true or worthy couples, I am for the radical notion that a marriage or commitment is a personal affair. I am for multi-dimensional education, for art and science, for the abolition of standardized bullshit. I am for the introduction of learning and the death of zombie memorization, I am for blue-collar students and students without blue pills. Fairness, Equality, Diversity, Acceptance...is that too much to ask for?

recycle your aluminum, reuse all your plastics, use sacs, lots of sacs and drink from your tap! don't hurt our mother's surface, instead gift her with flowers and trees! keep her waterways safe from pharmaceutical propaganda and liberate her land from debilitating pesticides. let her natural richness lead her revolution, abolish the destruction!

The Spirit that killed aboriginals, africans, native americans, and asians is STILL alive...END IMPERIALISM TODAY!!!!

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