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PoC are constantly expected to be emotional midwives to white people. Attempts to claim space or identity for ourselves–without deference to whiteness–are inevitably met with suspicion, anger, fear, and guilt (witness white anger over the President’s racial self-identification). We’re expected to have a conversation on race and racism that centers and assuages white emotions, to speak about race in terms and frameworks that are neither by, for, or ultimately about us. What little space we’re afforded in mainstream media is taken up with 101-level education, demands that we justify our existence, and prove the merit of our perspectives and accomplishments beyond the shadow of a doubt. White critics and, occasionally, other people of color, often feel a casual entitlement to pass judgment on PoC narratives of our own experiences, and on our scholarship, without putting in the effort to learn about or engage with either.
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(Source: meninthistown, via styleguy)
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Burberry Brit Spring/Summer 2013 Lookbook
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HIEU NGUYEN - “It Was The Winter…”
“Nostalgia forgets to visit this street. It is too busy with tree houses and rope swings; it doesn’t have time for all this grey.”
Button Poetry’s own HIEU NGUYEN is a finalist in the 2013 Write Bloody Publishing Contest. Reblog (and like this video on youtube) to help Hieu win a publishing deal!
AHH! I wrote a book, and that book is a finalist for the Write Bloody Publishing book contest! Part of the contest is seeing how many YouTube “likes” I can get for my submission video. If you have the time please like (thumbs up) the video (on youtube) and if you feel like sharing/reblogging the link that would totally not hurt my feelings. BAH!!! Thank you!!
Help my friend Hieu get a book published with Write Bloody! His poetry is beautiful and important. Please “like” this video on Youtube!
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For all the artists out there. xoxo
When I make my Youtube videos, I make them with the idea in mind that everyone will hate it so I should make something I like just for me .
Surprisingly people like my videos.(via bryarly)
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I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out
Which is worse: The dark inside, or the darkness out.— Joseph Brodsky, from “I Sit by the Window” (translated by Howard Moss)(Source: awritersruminations, via adieufranz)
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Monday morning inspiration
