This Is Insane And Wildly Unconstitutional And Prisons Are Really Really Really Evil

Who are we? We are the global South, that large set of creations and creatures that has been sacrificed to the infinite voracity of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and all their satellite-oppressions. We are present at every cardinal point because our geography is the geography of injustice and oppression. We are not everyone; we are those who do not resign themselves to sacrifice and therefore resist. We have dignity. We are all indigenous peoples because we are where we have always been, before we had owners, masters, or bosses, or because we are where we were taken against our will and where owners, masters, or bosses were imposed on us. They want to impose on us the fear of having a boss and the fear of not having a boss, so that we may not imagine ourselves without fear. We resist. We are widely diverse human beings united by the idea that the understanding of the world is much larger than the Western understanding of the world. We believe that the transformation of the world may also occur in ways not foreseen by the global North. We are animals and plants, biodiversity and water, earth and Pachamama, ancestors and future generations—whose suffering appears less in the news than the suffering of humans but is closely linked to theirs, even though they may be unaware of it.

— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir; EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH: JUSTICE AGAINST EPISTEMICIDE  

Lingo by Gaston Dorren

so true and no less valid the other way around. most likely, it was noam chomsky who introduced me, a social scientist, to linguistics.

untitled by irana on Flickr.

by james_films

Lorde, A. (2003). The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Feminist postcolonial theory: A reader, 25, 27.

Tired of self-care. How about a little bit of government care. political care. infrastructural care.

~ @caraellison

We expect humans to live on Mars in the near future, yet we haven’t even dared to inhabit Antarctica