Tag Archives: anger

READ! “I don’t want to be someone who can’t empathize with people who don’t look like me”

this post, like a lot of the posts on bgd, is fkn spot-on. it verbalizes something that i have not been able to put my finger on before. of how racism, white supremacy, the totally biased and unequal reaction to … Continue reading

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kick ass response to normalized racism and tokenism

here’s a kick-ass response in a discussion involving people i’m not that familiar with in the context of the rights of indigeneous people in north america, but to the content of which i can relate to, period. ———————————————————————————- ~ Friday, … Continue reading

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someone else’s words

there’s stuff i’m wanting to write, waiting to write, and not managing. in the absence of mine, i’m reposting the words of one razan ghazzawi, a young woman i don’t know at all, whose roots tie her to bloodied syria. … Continue reading

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too much

no energy, not to check news, not to call anne, not to find out what’s going on in gaza. found out by chance that karme khateeb died this morning morning. during the clashes after the funeral, i overheard bilal say … Continue reading

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global protests against the attacks on gazans

we all need to do A LOT and NOW to stop this from turning into another massive war on a people reposting this from here Emergency Global Actions for Gaza This is an updating document (begun 11/14/12) compiled from latest … Continue reading

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