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fleetling · 3 months

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Touching you I catch midnight / as moon fires set in my throat

Audre Lorde, from ''Recreation'' in The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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soracities · 2 years

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Audre Lorde, "From The House of Yemanjá", The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde [transcript in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #audre lorde #from the house of yemanja #collected poems of audre lorde #mother of otherness eat me #and still i rise #reading #typography #m #x

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alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry · 1 year

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For those of us who live at the shoreline

standing upon the constant edges of decision

crucial and alone

for those of us who cannot indulge

the passing dreams of choice

who love in doorways coming and going

in the hours between dawns

looking inward and outward

at once before and after

seeking a now that can breed

futures

like bread in our children’s mouths

so their dreams will not reflect

the death of ours;

For those of us

who were imprinted with fear

like a faint line in the center of our foreheads

learning to be afraid with our mother’s milk

for by this weapon

this illusion of some safety to be found

the heavy-footed hoped to silence us

For all of us

this instant and this triumph

We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid

it might not remain

when the sun sets we are afraid

it might not rise in the morning

when our stomachs are full we are afraid

of indigestion

when our stomachs are empty we are afraid

we may never eat again

when we are loved we are afraid

love will vanish

when we are alone we are afraid

love will never return

and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive.

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

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weltenwellen · 1 year

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Audre Lorde, “From the House of Yemanjá”, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

#poetry

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russellius · 10 months

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GR : confidence, contrasts, hope and other big words

sources below the cut:

Square Mile: George Russell: "I'm ready to fight." // Russell admits he's not wasy to work with // // Ready for Takeoff with George Russell // The Telegraph: Why George Russell believes he is ready to win the world title // F1: George Russell is destined for the top - just ask Alonso //The Telegraph // Oh Ana by Mother Mother // Alex Albon appraises George Russell's Mercedes move after replacing him at Williams // The next Hamilton? Autocar meets F1 prodigy George Russell // Hadestown, Come Home with Me // The Race // Criminal by Britney Spears // Roland Barthes: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments // Audre Lorde, “From the House of Yemanjá”, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde // --- // High Performance Podcast //--- // Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall // Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds // Icarus Interlude by Zayn // --- // Try by P!nk // C.S. Lewis // --- // --- // Rainer Maria Rilke tr. by Anita Barrows from The Book of Hours // man I don't fking know anymore, it's from an article after Jeddah 23

#george russell #f1 #web weaving #*m #*mine #🖤#(my toxic trait is screenshotting everything but not tracking sources)

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jaguarys · 5 months

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On the Sith, Enduring Anger, and Self-Torment

Fiona Apple, Under the Table // David Lynch, The Angriest Dog In The World // Jen Mazza // Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith // Fiona Apple, Window // Ethel Cain, American Teenagers // Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith // David Whyte, Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means // Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals // May Sarton, Collected Poems // Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End // Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith // Clarice Lispector, Forgiving G-d // unknown // Silas Denver Melvin, Grit // Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith // Elizabeth Frink, Red Dog // Leah Horlick, For Your Own Good // Mitski, I’m Your Man // Star Wars Rebels, Twin Suns // Me/@jaguarys, Working For the Knife

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emiliosandozsequence · 1 year

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dune part two (2023) dir. denis villeneuve / the collected poems of audre lorde, 'from the house of yamanjá', audre lorde

#dune #duneedit #princess irulan #irulan corrino #dune 2023 #audre lorde #denis villeneuve #princess irulan corrino #mine #mww #dww #comparatives #comparative #web weave #web weaving #web weavings #web weaves

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Abdulla Moaswes (عبد الله موسوس), The Epistemicide of the Palestinians: Israel Destroys Pillars of Knowledge, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, February 2, 2024

(image: «Audre Lorde's Collected Poems, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, William Butler Yeats’ Selected Poems and Two Plays, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. These are some books my younger brother Hamza Abu-Toha sent to me today which he got from under the rubble.» – Mosab Abu-Toha)

#photography #book #journal #abdulla moaswes #mosab abu toha #hamza abu toha #audre lorde #jonathan franzen #william butler yeats #john green #institute for palestine studies #2020s

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sheabutterbitch · 1 year

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hi❣️what are some things (novels, hobbies, music, shows, etc.) that have fundamentally shifted your personal paradigm(s)?

This is not at all an exhaustive list, but I love this question and wanted to answer!

Books

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name (Lorde)

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis

Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

Directed by Desire (Poems) by June Jordan

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

The Language and Thought of the Child, Piaget

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

Music (Albums):

Madvillainy

Tha Carter 3

Deadication 2

Take Me Apart

Good kid, m.A.A.d city

Section.80

A Seat at the Table

From the Westside with Love II

Honestly, so many to list but I do have a page on my blog filled with songs that are important to me! Here

Hobbies:

Writing!

Music production my SoundCloud

Cooking and baking

Brewing and flavoring kombucha

Video games

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jazbaaati · 1 year

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- Audre Lorde, A Sewerplant Grows In Harlem Or I’m a Stranger Here Myself When Does The Next Swan Leave, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

#audre lorde #poem #poetry #lorde

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fleetling · 1 year

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I am the sun and the moon and forever hungry / for her eyes.

Audre Lorde, from ‘‘From the House of Yemanjá’’ in The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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familyabolisher · 1 year

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2022 reading list >:)

fiction:

charlotte brontë, jane eyre

n.k. jemisin, the stone sky

victor hugo, les misérables

susanna clarke, piranesi

james baldwin, giovanni's room

tamsyn muir, gideon the ninth

tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth

emily brontë, wuthering heights

ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness

oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

isaac fellman, dead collections

joan lindsay, picnic at hanging rock

shirley jackson, dark tales

gretchen felker-martin, manhunt

herman melville, moby dick

octavia butler, parable of the sower

shola von reinhold, lote

larissa lai, the tiger flu

alison rumfitt, tell me i'm worthless

julia armfield, our wives under the sea

shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house

miguel de cervantes, don quixote

toni morrison, the bluest eye

isaac babel, odessa stories

alexandre dumas, the count of monte cristo

daphne du maurier, rebecca

clark ashton smith, the dark eidolon and other fantasies

rivers solomon, the deep

akwaeke emezi, freshwater

e.m. forster, a room with a view

vladimir nabokov, lolita

ayse papatya bucak, the trojan war museum and other stories

sheridan le fanu, carmilla

e.m. forster, maurice

tamsyn muir, nona the ninth

vladimir nabokov, pale fire

shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

jorge luis borges, fictions

henry james, the turn of the screw

tamsyn muir, undercover

ling ma, severance

orhan pamuk, the museum of innocence

shirley jackson, hangsaman

nonfiction:

vijay prashad, no free left: the futures of indian communism

eduardo galeano, open veins of latin america

hakim adi, pan-africanism: a history

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

a rainbow thread: an anthology of queer jewish texts ed. noam sienna

kwame nkrumah, africa must unite

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

norm finkelstein, the holocaust industry

robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass

vladimir lenin, the state and revolution

saidiya hartman, wayward lives, beautiful experiments

john aberth, from the brink of the apocalypse

erik butler, metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film

amin maalouf, the crusades through arab eyes

anandi ramamurthy, black star: britain's asian youth movements

christopher chitty, sexual hegemony

shakespearean gothic, ed. christy desmet and anne williams

cervantes' don quixote: a casebook, ed. roberto gonzález echevarria

edward said, culture and imperialism

emily hobson, lavender and red: liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left

audre lorde, zami: a new spelling of my name

ghassan kanafani, on zionist literature

afsaneh najmabadi, women with moustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity

jamie berrout, essays against publishing

beverley bryan, stella dadzie, suzanne scafe, heart of the race: black women's lives in britain

jamaica kincaid, a small place

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian and scientific

poetry:

trish salah, lyric sexology

melissa range, scriptorium

wendy trevino, cruel fiction

june jordan, selected poems

#.txt #i skipped a few that were just like. very famous plays or whatever but!#you see what i mean abt how much i need to Read More Poetry :(#also: posts that make you think about the inadequacy of the fiction/nonfiction distinction

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yanqings · 4 months

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Top 6 Reads from 2023 🕺 tagged by charlie jester the third @charlatanesque <3

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde - cried on multiple occasions. Such a beautiful and profound exploration of breast cancer, love, community, and desire.

Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka - if you think your situationship was bad, take a look at this guy

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin - tore me to shreds with every sentence. sometimes i just repeat “poor, poor, poor giovanni” to myself out of nowhere

A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish - the first book i read this year. One of the poems that always stuck with me from this collection was “The house as casualty” and it’s been on my mind even more in the last three months

The Collected Poetry of Audre Lorde - the book that got me through this semester 😭 miss lorde i owe you my life

The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard - it can be SOOO pretentious sometimes. However it did gut me from time to time: “I would have died for you but I never had the luck”, “You want him to know what cannot be spoken, and to make the perfect reply, in the same language”…….

tagging @llycaons @qujianglin @spockily @rosasappho @recapitulation @dragonji and anyone else who wants to do it :)

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ebookporn · 4 months

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Writers of Color Are Redefining Nature Writing

A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation—both their own and the Earth’s.

By Amanda Machado

In the winter of 2021, still very much in the midst of the pandemic, I started reading The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. Lorde was a queer Black writer who had become a literary hero of mine after I read her essays on feminism, sexuality, and racial justice. As I began exploring her poetry, I was immediately struck by how often she used nature to process the political realities of her life. “Love Poem” uses erotic descriptions of landscapes to capture the intimacy of her queer relationships. “The Brown Menace, or Poem to the Survival of Roaches” celebrates Black resilience, while “Second Spring” meditates on the dissonance of seasons changing as we are still mourning the past. Lorde writes:

We have no passions left to love the spring Who had suffered autumn as we did, alone Walking through dominions of a browning laughter Carrying our loneliness our loving and our grief.

When I read “Second Spring”—with the 2020 global uprising against police violence still relatively fresh and just weeks after the attack on the U.S. Capitol—the poem captured the spiritual exhaustion of the moment, how the Earth sometimes moves faster than our grief does. As a queer Latina writer who had spent years writing about nature, finding Lorde’s poetry felt like a relief. Finally, I had found a writer who wrote about nature in a way that was inextricable from every system of power we lived in. Before, when I had tried to read anything by someone labeled as a “nature writer,” the blatant omission of the forces that so deeply affected my outdoor experiences—white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy—made me feel distant from their work.