mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu! the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it! but rent is due! assist if you can. venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup paypal: @upsettingthesetup

"Each problem that we face is just a part of this movement, It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it, And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted, And wake humanity from these illusions." -Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea

“I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the Earth.” -Frantz Fanon

"water, water, water to drink, what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink? competition in the sky, first man on the moon, artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..." -sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)

“The fight against racism and fascism is completely bound up with the fight to overthrow capitalism, the system that breeds both." -Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)

"Trying to explain white privilege to white people is sometimes like trying to explain water to fish. Fish says, ‘there is no water, I've never seen any, water never did nothing for me’ meanwhile its the thing that sustains the fish's very life..." -Cory Kilcoyne

in memory and celebration of assata shakur i’m riding my bike around berkeley/oakland listening to my “assata taught me” playlist. *what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.” -Michel Foucault

“I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror.” — Assata Shakur (2007)

“Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the 'wretched of the earth,' have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.” ― Mumia Abu-Jamal

“I feel as our African friends do that we need all ideologies which point toward the total liberation of the African peoples all over the world." -Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965)

most of my relationships are at best acquaintances and i’m honestly not all that moved to sustain them shits.

the way you’re still not wearing a high quality mask in the face of an entirely normalized mass disabling and eugenics event in a society that otherwise demonstrates its capacity for unapologetic inhumanity signifies how not serious you are about individual and our collective survival.

When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.

what creighton leigh said!

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." -Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son—we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.” —Ella Baker

This absolutely breaks my heart.

i read this and cried simply because children never consented to being sacrificed to covid for capitalism!

Strong words, but sometimes those are necessary so we take notice and do what we have to to protect ourselves. #COVID

"You interrogate your privilege, but never your abled privilege. You educate yourself about oppression, but never ableism." @miamingus.bsky.social

"You will remain a commodity as long as the Empire exists." - Russell Means

what creighton leigh said!

"make no mistakes about it--enlightenment is a destructive process. it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. it's seeing through the facade of pretense. it's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." -adyashanti

“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.” ― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“Poverty does not beatify. Poverty does not teach generosity or allow for sucker attributes of tenderness and restraint. In white America, hatred of Black folks has imposed 360 degrees of poverty upon us.” -June Jordan, Requiem for the Champ

fucking-fuck, i feel this!!

covid consscious, covid informed, covid aware, people wearing masks in public, i fucking appreciate you!

what @rx0rcist.bsky.social said, gawdamn it! p.s. whole thread!

Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is." It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.

that’s what the fuck i’m screamin’!

what @miamingus.bsky.social said!

"Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day. Imagine you have to plan your week around taking a shower (sitting down)."

your public displays of infection are really making us sick!

the way you all have normalized public displays of infection (without protection) via these creepy wet coughs year round is deeply disturbing.

"the world is infinite, and so are we--no amount of living, no number or depth of interactions with others should be ‘enough’ for any of us, just as no amount of interactions with a person you love will ever be ‘enough.’” - entarchy

"Another world is possible, but only on top of the corpse of capitalism." - Subcomandante Marcos, spokesperson for the Zapatista National Liberation Army

"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property." -Assata Shakur

“As free market capitalism and technology expands, The third world's fertile soil becomes a desert wasteland, So it takes bands to, demand the, government provide answers, When Lady Liberty has me Bewitched like Samantha, And poverty is one of the most malignant forms of cancer.” -The Last Emperor

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010)

it would be dope if recording artists started an “artists against mass disability and eugenics in the covid era” movement!

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.” ― Herman Melville

“Maybe they realize spread of unmitigated illness is a tool of colonization that harms systemically marginalized groups, and they actively choose not to engage in this.”

“Nobody talks about how Black American parents have only been parenting for 160 years which means many of our ancestors learned to be parents as enslaved people on a plantation and that impacts every aspect of how we navigate parenthood as Black people raising Black children in an antiblack country”

most of us can’t afford the cost of living...

what creighton leigh said, damn it!

wow! how did i miss this movie?! it's almost as if hollywood knew in 2020 that covid was airborne, uv-lights were helpful in mitigating the virus, & their depiction of a lockdown was more of a martial law enforced one unlike the far less strict one in the u.s. (in select cities).

all this chatter about “solidarity” and “community” with an absolute refusal to acknowledge an ongoing pandemic steadily disabling and killing folks just because wearing masks is scary apparently.

at cafe buying a vegan pastry: cashier said, “i like your shirt.” i said, “i like that you’re masked.”