#your silence will not protect you

[lola-theshowgrl]

My favourite reads of 2024 📚 💛 “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke 💛 “Your Silence Will Not Protect You” by Audre Lorde 💛 “To Wield The Darkest Night” by Beau Van Dalen 💛 “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell (not pictured) 💛 “Girl, Serpent, Thorn” by Melissa Bashardoust (not pictured) 💛 “Exquisite Corpse” by Poppy Z Brite 💛 “For The Wolf” by Hannah Whitten 💛 “The Slow Regard of Silent Things” by Patrick Rothfuss 💛 “The Penelopiad” by Margaret Atwood 💛 “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

[seaswells]

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

The Beatnigs - Television (live)

from the Your Silence Will Not Protect You compilation tape, originally uploaded to archive.org as part of the NOISE_ARCH tape collection

[purplemattrrr]

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the masters’s house as their only source of support.

— Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools 1979

[cynicalclassicist]

Fine stuff from Alan Cumming!

alancummingreally I wore this suit to the Met gala centuries ago in protest at being told to shut up and keep out of politics during the Iraq war, but I think today its message is even more prescient and vital.

The quote is by the great Audre Lord and the suit was designed by Stephen Cirona.

[brooklyndadshow]

Source of inspiration

One of my goals for the last of my year has to been read more. I was unpacking my book bag and looking at my journal and books in progress and that I was about to start.

I'm feeling like I've successfully landed this goal.

It's always interesting to balance consuming content and creating content. You must find inspiration and be able to channel it into your own work. Especially in a world saturated with content new and old, curating your consumption feels more important and challenging than ever.

Here is what's next on the list.

I first heard of "What it Means When A Man Falls from the Sky" in a Levar Burton Reads Podcast. Everything Levar Burton and his podcast is just inspiring. He always lifts up speculative fiction by people of color and women. If you haven't listened yet, go do it now. Also see in theater or if you can find it streaming the documentary about Reading Rainbow - "Butterfly In The Sky" .

If you're looking for an amazing powerful story listen to this from his podcast series:

I think afterwards you'll know why this short story is in the queue:

The titular story broke me a little bit when I first listened to Levar Burton read it. From his comments you can see it also lit a fire of inspiration for Levar Burton. Inspiring Levar Burton is absolutely a life goal of mine. To inspire the people that have inspired me- my new creative words to live by?

[moodymeangirl]

"For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital", Audre Lorde's Your Silence Will Not Protect You.

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

Please pray for all those going to the March for Life this week, that they put their trust in God and not in princes.

[willyhoos]

metamy is insane. like.

what if i was the hero you loved gone wrong. defeated and destroyed. rebuilt as my own greatest enemy. what if i lost everything. what if i had been reprogrammed to despise all i had once fought for. what if i couldn't even remember why i had fought at all.

and what if you were made of roses. what if you represented every beautiful thing i once died trying to protect. what if you wore flowers in your hair and cared for small creatures and had eyes the color of the forests i used to call my home. what if you were everything i once loved.

those memories are just out of my reach. infuriatingly. maddeningly. but if anyone knows who i am (who i used to be) it's you. if anyone can make me feel like who i used to be (who i really am) it's you. i can't speak, i can't breathe, i can't remember anything (but you).

you are the world i have been ordered to burn. i am the weapon you have chosen to resist. i was (am) the hero that you loved.

you are my only memory.

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Straasa comes to stand next to you, fingers gently cradling as he takes your hand in his. He meets Rai's glare steadily, body loose and expression unreadable. His unflinching composure warns Rai to be very careful with what they mean to do next.

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

Jeannette Armstrong + HMS Dub - World Renewal Song

from the Your Silence Will Not Protect You compilation tape, originally uploaded to archive.org as part of the NOISE_ARCH tape collection.

[starfullnights]

sometimes my brain is so full of thoughts

that i have no words left to speak

#you are not your thoughts

[chilapis]

if you’ve ever been mean to the sweet little girl that is paimon i will kill you. i pray for public interest that this is common knowledge.

[herbfort]

It is really easy to fall into defeatism right now but you have to remember that giving up only gives fascists more power. Do not let them win.

[parchmentknight]

CHARLES SMITH RED DEAD 2 UHHH

charles smith redemption two is just like me fr

[ariesvibe]

.