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“Translations” – Adrienne Rich
You show me the poems of some woman my age, or younger translated from your language Certain words occur: enemy, oven, sorrow enough to let me know she’s a woman of my time obsessed with Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls baked it like bread in our ovens worn…
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“Inheritance” – Warsan Shire
Where did you get those big eyes? My mother. And where did you get those lips? My mother. And the loneliness? My mother. And that broken heart? My mother. And the absence, where did you get that? My father. “Inheritance” Warsan Shire (via prideinthepanther)
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Give a little
“You give according to your means and you receive according to your needs” “Judge a country by how it treats their weakest and poorest but also judge it for how it treats their rich” In case you have some pennies to spare – even if it is just 50 cents do consider giving it to…
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The Normal Heart – VU Book Club
Things I learnt at the VU Book Club session conducted by Dirk Visser on Larry Kramer and his play “The Normal Heart.” It was a learning experience for I had little knowledge on AIDS and almost no idea as to how it was directly linked to homophobia: The AIDS debate is, “Not a rational but…
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Aur bhi dukh~ Faiz
Aur bhi dukh hain zamane mein mohabbat ke siva rahaten aur bhi vasl ki rahat ke siva Faiz Ahmed Faiz (via d-u-n-i-y-a)
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Nitasha Kaul – What Does it Mean to be an Internationalist Today?
Having known Nitasha and read her articulate, precise and insightful work, it gives me immense pride and pleasure to share with you this video of her speaking at a conference in London about what it means to be an internationalist today. “Beyond the nation state and concentric circles of self” – if there is one…
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Naz and its detractors: A response by Jordan Osserman
Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006: Guest Post by Jordan Osserman Amidst the outcry of queer rage and mourning against the Supreme Court judgment has emerged a strand of skepticism (For examples See here , here and here) from within queer circles, directed at the participants in the anti-377 campaign. These skeptics…
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