sea-lestial-dream-witch:

If you’re reading this, good luck will befall you and you will receive some good news within a week’s time.

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🎍reblog to cast🎍

mashrou3-ummi:

• “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• “Race and Criminalization; Black Americans and the Punishment Industry” in The House that Race Built, ed. Wahneema Lubiano, 1997
• “Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation”, originally from If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, ed. Angela Davis & Betty Aptheker, 1971
• “Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• “I Used to be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity” in Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1999
• “From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography, 1974 [reprinted in 1988]
• “Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
• “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” in The Massachusetts Review , 1972
• “Globalism and the Prison-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis”, conducted by Avery F. Gordon, 1999
• “Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• Are Prisons Obsolete, 2003
• Alternatively, all of this can be found in my Angela Davis dropbox

heavensghost:

entitledrichpeople:

Homeless people are human beings with immense value.  They are members of our families, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and, for a number of people reading this, they are themselves (or have been).

The fact that homeless people do not have housing is a wrong done against them, not a sign they did something wrong.  To then try and ban them from public spaces and existing in public (including doing things we all have to do, like sleep or eat), is yet another grievous wrong.

An attack on homeless people is not “protecting the community”, it is an attack on the community.  Homeless people aren’t my enemy, those who would ban them from things like sleeping in public are my enemy.

open-books:

Pendant les journées européennes du patrimoine 2011, Charlotte Cheetham et Sophie Demay explorent avec leurs invités certains des éléments consubstantiels à l’objet livre: la collection, la double page et la bibliothèque. Basé sur une série de performances et d’installations sonores et visuelles, cet événement s’intéresse notamment à la physicalité du livre et à sa transcription au travers d’autres médias.

Invités: James Langdon (designer graphique et fondateur/ commissaire d’Eastside Project, Birmingham), Stuart Whipps (artiste et photographe, Birmingham), Dominique Hurth (The Reading Room, Berlin)

In the Context of Margins est une lecture-performance présentant dix ouvrages de la collection du “Reading Room” et se concentrant sur la manipulation, la lecture tactile, et la description en parole des livres d’artistes proposés. La lecture performative regarde l’espace entre, entre les marges, le papier, entre l’ouverture de la couverture au contenu, entre image et caption, et permet ainsi une lecture technique, poétique ou historique des différents ouvrages. La voix devient ornament et écho des mains qui scrutinent les livres. En représentant les différentes pratiques autour de la publication et du livre d'artiste présentes dans la collection du Reading Room, chaque livre d'artistes présenté initie un set d'action et de réflection différent, où la manipulation, la lecture, la matérialité sont issus d'une décision conceptuelle et ésthétique; le livre n'étant ainsi pas seulement outil de diffusion mais bel et bien un médium délivrant une pratique contenue dans et par les marges, entre objet et oeuvre, et questionnant ainsi le format et la fonction du livre et de la publication. De plus le lecteur questionne à son tour la stratégie artistique et le format du livre, tous deux réactivés à chaque lecture.

Dominique Hurth (The Reading Room) delivered a lecture/performance that presents in a dynamic live format a selection of publications and projects from the collection. The lecture/performance with focus on the potentialities that arise during the moments of the readers interaction with a publication. Fragments of content read aloud or displayed to the overhead camera, segue into observations on the formal and technical aspects, as well as subjective, associative thoughts and commentary. The physical hand gestures that frame and partially constitute the reading experienced are acknowledged as the range of titles and formats - chosen as representative of the The Reading Room’s collective whole - interplay on the surface of the lecture table: loose pages of an art-zine spread themselves chaotically, books lay over folded out poster-publications, a leperello format publication slowly extends itself across the table and over the edge, text and images sit in mute observation as a vinyl audio-project circulates and plays out.
Publications and Projects to be presented during the lecture/performance include those by artists: Justin Bland / Peggy Buth / Sarah Browne / Wayne Daly / Christian Jankowski / Susanne Kriemann / Christine Lemke / Sean Lynch / David Marmota / Ed Wakefield / Stefanie Seibold / Stijn Verhoeff / Mariana Castillo Debal / Juan Requena / Dominique Hurth