links for 2008-11-16
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"Socially there is an imbalance in knowledge. For the sake of survival POC have had to learn about whiteness and how to negotiate it; whereas no such knowledge has been necessary for those that are white. They can freely go about their days seeing whiteness reflected everywhere as good and positive. Open a history book and you will be immediately astounded by the achievements of whiteness. Our knowledge of you is unavoidable, whereas yours is conveniently reduced to the month of February and the obligatory shout out to MLK."
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"[M]y experience to share is that the more I threw caution to the wind and wrote specifics in online perv/sex-partner-hunting ads, the better my results. My twin sister and I adopted the phrase 'Fuck it, I’m 40' when we turned it this past February, and I can’t tell you how much it’s set me free in how many areas. But especially sex. All the things I thought were either asking too much, or too blunt, or too self-interested, or too irreverent, or too open – I said fuck it, I’m 40, and I just put it out there."
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"Build community. Sure, community is hard. Frustrating. Messy. There are personalities that clash. There are people who do not do their fair share of the work. There are people who want to distance themselves from the cause. But in order to have community, you have to give people permission to be different."
Nov 16 2008 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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