What falls away

I’m reading Neferti Tadiar’s Things Fall Away, and this passage leaps out: …one of my man objectives in this book has been to carefully attend to the varied, creative potential of subjective practices that socially oriented and social movement literatures attempt to figuratively capture and yet tend to diminish in the fabulation of proper historical [...]

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” Israel’s immigrant children fight deportation”

From Mondoweiss via curate: Noah Mae (second from left) and her friends are not Jewish either, though they were born in Israel and have lived there all their lives: Noah Mae speaks and dreams in Hebrew. She is one of the more than 1,000 children of migrant workers who are scheduled for deportation this year.

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POCs on bikes

A friend described cycling as a whitestream activity. I mentioned that I saw a lot of poc commuters in the early morning, and expect more as Los Angeles Metro fares go up once again (boo!). But that’s commuting, she said. Of course there would be a lot of poc. Riding a bike becomes “cycling,” a [...]

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