La Kemster

carrierudzinski:

The greatest group piece I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Denver Minor Disturbance winning Brave New Voices 2012:

Written and performed by my homies Ashlynn Damers and Amal Kassir. 

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. It’s not one person’s job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

—

Chinua Achebe

(via jacobwren)

-we are like lions. we are golden. we write to right things.-

(via fuckyeahslampoems)

Riding bikes everywhere? Using recyclable diapers? Carpooling? We’ve been doing that in Eritrea for decades. Where’s our reward for saving the Earth? Why aren’t we plastered all over Time magazine? If we lived in the same disgusting, gluttonous fashion that Americans lived, this planet would no longer be able to sustain the human race. But yet, they blame the world’s environmental ills on “overpopulation” (code: poor brown people existing) and then usurp our lifestyle habits, trademark it as their own and pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum.

How convenient of such a narcissistic nation.

—My uncle, upon learning about America’s “new Green Movement”. Obviously, he’s not impressed. (via eastafrodite)

(Source: maarnayeri, via scoutington)

I don’t have a rubric for always knowing when and how, a lot of this is trial and error, but I do know that a) speaking up for yourself will usually not end the world, b) you can survive making a mistake, and c) you can survive someone else’s displeasure. There is no prize for being the most world’s most accommodating person. And if there were a prize, it would be “hanging out with people who walk all over you, being afraid to speak up, and silently seething at them, forever.

—http://captainawkward.com/2013/04/17/468-and-469-hey-knock-it-off-or-constructive-conflict-continued/ (via scoutington)

barwaaqo:

i think maybe it’s something we share, us immigrants, us children of immigrants, those of us thrown into diaspora, scattered across countries and continents with names we still struggle to pronounce, further from the heartland than our parents ever dreamed we’d end up. we spend so much time in…

(Source: nomadmanifesto)