April 2013
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When I walk into the law library with my Starbucks...
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March 2013
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“I want you. I want your sleepy confused look when you wake up. I want to be the...”
– Elay Neal Moses (via muttermanor)
Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is when some of my fellow immigrants of African descent use their experiences to try and invalidate the systemic and institutionalized racism that Black Americans face in the United States. I will still…
February 2013
13 posts
“Privileged kids go to counseling, poor kids go to jail.”
– Judge Mathis, speaking the truth (via thatprettyoddfeminist)
facts on facts on facts
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THIS is why I do what I do
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working in education these past few months have made his point all the more heartbreakingly clear (via newwavefeminism)
January 2013
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HD in tumblr-land....: So! →
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I blogged about the story here on Christmas Eve in which a man — a white dude, unsurprisingly — set his house on fire, waited for firefighters to show up, and shot them all, killing two.
It’s unsurprisingly enormous local news, and it’s my understanding that it has at least…
