revolution, writing, Palestine solidarity, feminism(s),anti-racism, mod podge, (fair trade) coffee, anti-oppression work, books, bagels, bare feet on hot sand, laughter, liberation
I'd like to meet:
I am drawn
to the savoring of syllables
the ferver of revolution
the lack of a drone
and the presence
the ups and downs
of melodic syntax
and harmonious arguments.
Those who speak in song and colors
interspersed with militant rhetoric.
I am drawn to questions
without answers,
and I draw away
from answers without questions
And those who give them
and do not ask.
frighten me.
Music:
Ani Difranco, The Philistines, Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, Mystic, The Coup, Immortal Technique, Climbing Poetree, Rebel Diaz, dam
Movies:
Divine Intervention, Angels in America, Crash, Occupation 101
Television:
Buffy, L Word
Books:
Zaatar Diva (Suheir Hammad), The Country Under My Skin (Gioconda Belli), Desert Blood (Alicia Gaspar de Alba), Wild Thorns (Sahar Khalifeh), The Color of Violence (INCITE), My People Shall Live (Leila Khaled), The Dispossesed (Ursula Leguin), 1984, Texaco (Chamoiseau), The Kite Runner, Brave New World, Kindred (Octavia Butler), Assata (Assata Shakur), teaching to transgress (bell hooks), Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde), In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez), Poetry for the People (June Jordan), Conquest: Sexual Violence and the American Indian Genocide (Andrea Smith), What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation (ed. South End Press), and the fact that this section is so much longer than the movies and tv sections says a lot about me.
Heroes:
anyone who is struggling in this fucked up society, building a better world, or just surviving day to day in the face of oppression, is my hero.
