May 2012
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Intervention am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften...
Am 29.05.2012 werden wir mit Bühnenwatch dem IAAW, Insitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften an der HU Berlin, einen Besuch abstatten.
Bühnenwatch, PRESS PLAY und die Fachschaft laden alle Interessierten ein…
„Behind the scenes – performing identity between cultural appropriation and self positioning“
Ein Gespräch mit Bühnenwatch zu Theater & Rassismus
am Dienstag, 29.05.2012, um 20...
April 2012
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The missing ingredient in Sweden’s...
What makes the cake episode so deeply offensive is the appropriation, by both artist and his audience, of African women’s bodies and experiences, while completely excluding real African women from the discourse. It is a pornography of violence.
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The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration of World Art Day, and the 75th birthday of...
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Bodies Have Histories: Musing on Makode Linde and... →
crunkfeministcollective:
Image via The Graph.com
Bodies have histories.
When I first saw the images of the now infamous “Painful Cake” I had questions. Who created this? What went through their mind? Why is a Black female body being consumed both literally and symbolically by White women? What did the people in the room think? What was the climate in which this cake was created?
Apparently...
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Call for Contributions: "Arriving In The Future -...
Edited by Asoka Esuruoso and Philipp Khabo Köpsell
Arriving in the future, Stories of Home and Exile will be an interdisciplinary approach to positioning. As a collection of poetry, short stories and academic essays on identity written by Black Writers who regard Germany as their home, and those who regard it as permanent or temporary exile, it will attempt to add a new layer to the debate...
March 2012
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Trayvon Martin und die Herren von der...
Da ist was… das ist seltsam. Soweit hergeholt kann es nicht sein. Darf ich ausführen? Die Fotos kapuzentragender Schwarzer Politiker, Musiker und Celebrities in Hoodies sind bewegend. Natürlich sind sie das. Da wurde ein 17-jähriger Junge von einem testosterongeladenem Neighborhood Watch-Captain erschossen, weil dieser den Teenager für kriminell hielt. Dass dieser nur zur Halbzeitpause...
“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This...
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“feminism is for lovers was invented to help you check. your. relationships. if...”
– (via feminismisforlovers)
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February 2012
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“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
January 2012
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“Consciousness of racism becomes understood as a kind of false consciousness, as...”
– Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects) - Sara Ahmed
Today I met Sara Ahmed, heard her speak about willful subjects, then we had drinks and dinner and it has been AMAZING. She is one the kindest and most generous people I’ve met in a long time. The downside of meeting someone like her is...
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Submitted Post: Eric Clapton - Rassismus
Am 5. August 1976, auf einem Konzert in Birmingham, äußerte Eric Clapton sich auf rassistische Weise gegen die ansteigende Immigration in England. Offensichtlich unter Drogen- oder Alkoholeinfluss unterstütze Clapton den rechtspopulistischen Politiker Enoch Powell mit den Worten: „Ich denke Enoch hat Recht…wir sollten sie alle zurückschicken. Schmeißt die Kanaken raus! Haltet England weiß!“...
“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture...”
– bell hooks (via revolutionnow)
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FYI: Another Blackface "incident" in a German...
Hello everybody,
as some of you might have already seen on yo, is this racist? there is - once again I must say - another theater production in a Berlin based german theater company where they use Blackface instead of Black actors!
As if that wasn´t stupid enough, no the theater decided not to take any of the criticism seriously and/or maybe refrain from showing the play “I`m not...
November 2011
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August 2011
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“„The body of a muslim woman, a body fixed in the Western imaginary as confined,...”
– Sherene Razack (via julinkah)
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July 2011
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“Whiteness is, …’a strategic component of the colonial legacy, of the...”
– Alfred J. Lopez
“Posts and Pasts” chapter “Whiteness and the Colonial Unconscious”
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“The notion of ‘situatedness’ entails indeed the idea that all practices –...”
– Nadia Fadil, Not-/unveiling as an ethical practice via kawdess
Here’s a great summary of the paper above (which you should read): The analysis will focus less on the various motivations for Muslim women not to veil, but more on the practice of not-veiling. In what follows, I will argue that...
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10 Strategien der Manipulation - Noam Chomsky →
julinkah:
1. Kehre die Aufmerksamkeit um
Das Schlüsselelement zur Kontrolle der Gesellschaft ist es, die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit auf unwesentliche Ereignisse umzulenken, um sie von wichtigen Informationen über tatsächliche Änderungen durch die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Führungsorgane…
June 2011
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Hinweis: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. Kerben...
Pünktlich zur Veröffentlichung des lang erwarteten kritischen Nachschlagwerks zu Rassismus und Sprachhandlungen, ist es endlich im Handel.
Diese schlanke, circa 900 Seiten umfassende Buch, versammelt Artikel zu Rassismus, Weißsein, Sprache, Wörtern die gar nicht gehen, Konzepten die sowas von gehen, ernstes über Kolonialismus und Rassismus, lustiges über Irrungen und Wirrungen von Weißen (Zitat...
Some Thoughts on Privilege, Activism, and Getting... →
You probably can’t make yourself non-racist, but you can make yourself anti-racist. And in the end, being anti-racist is actually more important.
No, you can’t ever rid yourself of privilege completely. But you can go a long way to rid yourself of ignorance of that privilege, and more to the point, you can make yourself into an opponent of privilege as it exists in the world, rather than...
http://www.cjr.org/reports/hiding_the_real_africa.p...
“And now for some good news out of Africa. Poverty rates throughout the continent have been falling steadily and much faster than previously thought, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. The death rate of children under five years of age is dropping, with “clear evidence of accelerating rates of decline,” according to The Lancet. Perhaps most encouragingly, Africa is “among...
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May 2011
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… tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there’s no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking. But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.
(Florynce R. Kennedy (b. 1916), U.S. lawyer, activist, speaker, and author. Color Me Flo, ch. 1 (1976). On the illogicality of prostitution being illegal while tobacco and alcohol are legal.)
Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.
Florynce R. Kennedy
April 2011
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Interview mit Olumide Popoola! →
“This is not about sadness. This is about love.”
Olumide Popoola, nigerianisch-deutsche Autorin, Dichterin und Performerin, lebt in London, wo sie Ayurvedische Medizin und kreatives Schreiben studierte. Als Künstlerin ist sie vor allem an cross-genre Literatur-Produktionen, der Überschneidung von Theorie und Kunst sowie „vernacular“ und hybriden Sprachen als literarische Mittel für...
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machWorte e.V. - Für alle die sich mit Sprache und...
machtWORTE! …26 und mehr Anregungen, Sprache immer wieder neu zu lernen.
Es handelt sich dabei um ein ABC-Buch, das auf spielerische Weise einen herrschaftskritischen Zugang zur deutschen Sprache erprobt.
Wissen wir immer, was wir sagen? Welche Normalität stellt unsere Sprache her und wie können wir diese verändern? Die dadaistischen ABC-Sätze regen dazu an, sich über solche Fragen...
March 2011
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“HollaBack!BLN (also HollaBack!BERLIN) launcht am 01. April 2011!
check...”
– HollaBack!BLN
fighting street harrasment in Berlin since 2011!
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MesseSexismus
Gewidmet den arbeitenden Frauen, die sich allerhand widerwärtiges auf Messen und bei anderen Jobs gefallen lassen müssen.
Heute: Ungefragt angefasst werden!
Es scheint mehr als normal zu sein, dass Frauen (also innerhalb des Jobs als “Mädchen” repräsentiert) im Prinzip jederzeit überall angefasst werden dürfen. Von selbstverständlich den Herren am Messestand, auch bekannt als...
February 2011
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Critique against Mainstream "Corrective Rape"... →
julinkah:
“The public exposure of bruised and battered faces and bodies of survivors is unethical and sensationalist. Many seem to assume that these petitions have been driven at least in part by survivors themselves. If you read carefully through the online petitions and the articles associated with these campaigns, you will find that the voices of survivors are largely absent. Once again black...