from her email:
last night, an arsonist torched the office of Women With a Voice, a new orleans-based organization that helps marginalized women: poor women, sex workers, women with substance abuse…
And I’m not just talking about the American right, I’m talking about all the well-meaning white folks who’ve told me how they want to like Lil Wayne but lo, the misogyny, the violence, the drugs. But, but, I’ll say: Bob Dylan aced misogyny; the Rolling Stones sang about violence; the Velvet Underground knew their way around some drugs. Yeeeah, but it’s different, they’ll say, elongating that “yeah” with conspiratorial inflection: you know what I mean. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
― (via fearandhope)
I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about Trayvon Martin lately and the politicization surrounding his death and today I woke up and realized that his parents probably haven’t had a moment’s rest since this tragedy unfolded. Not only at the hands of White supremacists and…
