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{ LINK: HECK YEAH, LIBYAN REVOLUTION!: If you want to see ALL the pictures of the Libyan Rage Protests, they are all on a Facebook page called "Freedom for the... }

*trigger warning* for violence/photos of murdered people

thelibyanrevolution:

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{ LINK: Mississippi “Odd” Damn: Or Intergenerational Black Feminism is Unbelievable }

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dancingonembers:

Black women on the move have always been queer to the intersecting systems of oppression that rely on us staying in our interchangeable and demeaning place.

“It just sounds really odd.  You know?”

This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner and I for questioning and we both explained to him  that we were driving through Mississippi as part of our cross country journey interviewing black LGBT feminist elders.

And outside the matrix of uniforms, skin, privilege and visible weapons, ghosts and the bloody history of the state (in the specific sense and the general sense) his disbelief would be at worst a strange look to brush off and at best a conversation to have about intergenerational black feminist love in action.   But in this case the fact that the officer could not believe our truth and was much more likely to believe that we were troublesome black teenagers joyriding across state lines in a stolen RV, could have been the difference between us driving through Mississippi and being locked up, or worse.  We are inside a matrix where to be black and feminist, to be black and driven by love, where to be black queer women on the move together is unbelievable from the perspective of the state.  And we still live in a time when to be  black, queer, brilliant, feminist, driven,  to be incredible, unbelievable, stunning,  to be exactly who we are, is a threat to the state and a risk to our lives.

We were not the first Black people in Mississippi to be stopped by white police officers with dubious cause.

In fact, part of the whole concept of the MobileHomecoming Project, the cross country journey to build family and community between generations of LGBTQ Black visionaries that my partner Julia Wallace and I embarked on this past June, is that we travel IN a mobilehome, remembering that not so long ago Black folks traveling through a segregated south and subject to state-sanctioned racial terror did not have the luxury of stopping whenever they wanted to rest in whatever “public” establishment might be around.  We know that we are queer black women on the road in a country where queer black people are consistently blamed for violence we endure from stranger and the state and even within our own communities.   Like our ancestors, we plan our stopping points far in advance and are blessed to have supportive community members all over the country hosting us in their homes and allowing us to park our RV nearby.

Officer writing a “courtesy warning” to us for being “odd” in Mississippi.

read the full article and much more at http://www.mobilehomecoming.org

also, check out http://www.blackfeminismlives.tumblr.com for rebloggable love and knowledge

So much rage and love all mixed in together. With a helping of envy because I don’t have movement right now.  Ah! I wish I could move! But this is beautiful. You should read it =]

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{ LINK: more tweets with news from Libya (*trigger warning*) }

image: 10 tweets of news from Libya:

EDIT: also a *warning* for ableist language used in reference to Gaddafi, and i suggest you read the article linked/quoted here because it deals with the representation of the mercenaries

[description courtesy of notthemarimba] @libyanmaddog: 400 dead in two days while 350 died in 18 days in Egypt. Libyan population=6 million, Egyptian population=82 million #Libya

@monaeltahawy (Mona Eltahawy): “Officers came out, said they are with the people.  They invited group of demonstrators inside building, closed gates, shot them.”  post is tagged #Libya.

@Jnoubiyeh (Sarah Abdallah): “The death toll keeps rising in #Libya.  At least 500 Libyans are estimated to have been murdered by #Gaddafi since the uprising began.  #Feb17”

[description courtesy of dancingonembers] @Lady_Gabina: #Libyan thugs bypassed the tear gas and went straight for live ammo. Please help spread the word. There is NO ind MEDIA in Libya. #Feb17

@monaeltahawy (Mona Eltahawy): “Murderous #Gaddafi has #Libya under communications blackout.  Libyans rise up even tho no intl media 2 bear witness.  In awe of their courage”

@Libyayalibya (Libyan kid): “#Gaddafi has given orders to the mercenaries to rape the Libyan women.  Can this be happening in 2011.  #Gaddafi is insane dictator.”

@KCDalis: “@yvonneridley CONFIRMED widespread massacres and genocide taking place as we speak in Libya.  Western Gov. awfully silent.  #Feb17 #Benghazi”

@ShababLibya: “confirmed: brika barracks, they are firing at anyone and everyone regardless of age etc, anyone they see (these ppl being paid) #Libya”

@juhina_ (jay_Libya): “confirmed: a child, 9 months old, was shot and died.  now how is that not genocide?  how is that not a massacre?  WHERE IS THE WORLD?  #libya”

@AJELive: “”it’s a massacre, it’s a massacre; the Libyan regime has gone crazy.  He’s killing the protesters.”  #Libya http://boo.fm/b283732 v @acarvin”

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