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On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:15:45 -0400

[Image: from the Black Community Survival Conference, DeFremery (locally known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton) Park, Oakland, CA, March 29, 1972. I first encountered this image via Alondra Nelson’s brilliant book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.]

“If I were president, I would solve this so-called welfare crisis in a minute and go a long way toward liberating every woman. I’d just issue a proclamation that ‘women’s’ work is real work.”
- Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare as a Women’s Issue.”

”The modern world hates to see black folks resting.”
- Lewis Gordon, “African American Philosophy, Race, and the Geography of Reason.”

Part One here.

This post is an experiment. It attempts to find a new route to the question of what it means to politicize Audre Lorde’s legacy. Its search is partly in response to what I described in part 1 as the tendency in some cases to deify Lorde by extracting her from the political context in which she lived, or by reducing her to a set of pithy (if brilliant) quotations, or by invoking her as an unqualified paragon of black women’s resilience. In attempting to route the conversation differently, my strategy is to try and glimpse Lorde through an archive that is not of her published writings but of a set of struggles and contexts that affirm dimensions of her humanity and her work that are too rarely emphasized—her struggles with health and wellness, her status as worker, her vulnerability to the very discourses that demand that she be seen as powerful. Doing this means following a route that may, to some, seem rather circuitous. I can only hope that by the end, those divergences will make some sense.

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White owl ♥ ♥ — with
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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:00:22 -0500

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Airan Kang’s latest art installation illuminates your late night reading.

— Illuminate Your World With the Glowing Books of Airan Kang

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:37:39 -0500

finally. i found my future. a mashup i made in 2007. found in old tattoo box in office. finally: a future i can bear to live out.

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:43:04 -0500

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Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:48:18 -0500

Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:33:32 -0500

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Photos of People Watching TV That Could Be Mistaken for a Mass Existential Crisis

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:29:38 -0500

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Jimi Hendrix 1970.

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:27:12 -0400

Jimi Hendrix 1970.

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Wed, 02 May 2012 21:13:00 -0400

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:39:05 -0400

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Sylvia Wynter, circa 1972.

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:37:43 -0400

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Samuel Delany Book Covers

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For Reading, Reading, Reading: An Incomplete Clyde Woods Bibliography Symposium on Clyde...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:56:00 -0400

For Reading, Reading, Reading: An Incomplete Clyde Woods Bibliography

Symposium on Clyde Woods’s Development Arrested in the Journal of Planning History, 3:3, (August 2004): 241-260 (with Alison Isenberg, Charles Connerly, George Lipsitz, Bobby Wilson, June Thomas, and Clyde Woods).

Clyde Woods. Development Arrested: Race, Power, and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta. London and New York: Verso, 1998.

Clyde Woods. Development Arrested: From the Plantation Era to the Katrina Crisis in the Mississippi Delta (New Edition). New York and London: Verso, 2012.

Clyde Woods, ed. In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions—A Special Issue of American Quarterly, 61:3, (September 2009).

Clyde Woods. “Katrina’s World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source,” American Quarterly, 61: 3, (September 2009): 427-453.

Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines Press and Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007.

Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods. “Introduction: ‘No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of The Ocean.’ Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines Press and Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007: 1-13.

Clyde Woods. “ ‘Sittin’ On Top of the World’: The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography,” in Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines Press; Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007: 46-81.

Clyde Woods. “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues.” American Quarterly. 57:4, (December 2005): 1005-1018.

Clyde Woods. ‘Life After Death.’ The Professional Geographer, 54:1, (2002): 62-66.

Clyde Woods. “Regional Blocs, Regional Planning and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta,” in Leonie Sandercok, ed.,Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998: 78-99.

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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:42:00 -0400

“the crate of bones I’ve become, good/I was waiting to throw my limbs on the pile,/the mounds of disarticulated femurs and radii/but perhaps we were always lying there,/dead on our feet and recyclable,/toxic and imperishable, the ways to see us”

- Dionne Brand, Ossuaries, 2010.

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The cover art for Thelonious Monk’s Underground (1967) is bewitching.

Pvt Hendrix plays a musical instrument during his off duty...

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