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transitch:

hot take but 

trans people shouldn’t have to pass to be respected

trans people shouldn’t have to want to pass to be respected

trans people shouldn’t have to be trying to pass to be respected 

(via thesoftestplaceonearth)

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nandawool asked: What are some books you’d recommend reading to understand French leftism, French colonialism, and neocolonialism ?

diasporapoet-deactivated2020010:

On French colonialism/neocolonialism: 

Frantz Fanon and writings on Fanon: 

- Wretched of the Earth

- Black Skin, White Masks 

- Toward the African Revolution

- Frantz Fanon: Conflicts & Feminisms by Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting 

- What Fanon Said by Lewis R. Gordon

Aimé Césaire:

Discourse on Colonialism

History of French Colonialism in Africa:

French Colonialism in Tropical Africa by Jean Suret-Canale (You can find this on LIBGEN)

Neo-Colonialism in West Africa by Samin Amin

French Colonialism in the Caribbean: 

Haiti:

The Black Jacobins by C.L.R James 

An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 

Guadeloupe: 

Maoism in the French Caribbean: the 1968 “GONG” Trial by Andrew Daily

GUADELOUPE IS OURS: The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in the French Antilles by Yarimar Bonilla 

French Colonialism in Syria: 

French Mandate Counter-Insurgency and the Repression of The Great Syrian Revolt by Michael Provence

French Colonialism in Vietnam:

Selected Writings by Ho Chi Minh

Jewish Resistance in WWII France:

Was the French Resistance Jewish?: Jews led—and purposefully did not lead—some of the many specialized groups that fought Vichy France and its Nazi occupiers by Renée Poznanski

In France:

Colonial Techniques in the Imperial Capital: The Prefecture of Police and the Surveillance of North Africans in Paris, 1925–circa 1970 by Amit Prakash

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nandawool asked: What are some books you’d recommend reading to understand French leftism, French colonialism, and neocolonialism ?

diasporapoet-deactivated2020010:

On French colonialism/neocolonialism: 

Frantz Fanon and writings on Fanon: 

- Wretched of the Earth

- Black Skin, White Masks 

- Toward the African Revolution

- Frantz Fanon: Conflicts & Feminisms by Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting 

- What Fanon Said by Lewis R. Gordon

Aimé Césaire:

Discourse on Colonialism

History of French Colonialism in Africa:

French Colonialism in Tropical Africa by Jean Suret-Canale (You can find this on LIBGEN)

Neo-Colonialism in West Africa by Samin Amin

French Colonialism in the Caribbean: 

Haiti:

The Black Jacobins by C.L.R James 

An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 

Guadeloupe: 

Maoism in the French Caribbean: the 1968 “GONG” Trial by Andrew Daily

GUADELOUPE IS OURS: The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in the French Antilles by Yarimar Bonilla 

French Colonialism in Syria: 

French Mandate Counter-Insurgency and the Repression of The Great Syrian Revolt by Michael Provence

French Colonialism in Vietnam:

Selected Writings by Ho Chi Minh

Jewish Resistance in WWII France:

Was the French Resistance Jewish?: Jews led—and purposefully did not lead—some of the many specialized groups that fought Vichy France and its Nazi occupiers by Renée Poznanski

In France:

Colonial Techniques in the Imperial Capital: The Prefecture of Police and the Surveillance of North Africans in Paris, 1925–circa 1970 by Amit Prakash

oscar-and-endear:

“Emotional labour is the invisible glue that holds our relationships, communities, movements, and selves together. It is indispensable, world-changing work. It is important to name the fact that emotional labour is frequently unacknowledged and exploited and that it is frequently demanded of particular groups of people including women, feminine/feminized people, and racialized people. At the same time, we must acknowledge that emotional labour is valuable and important. We need more of it, not less of it, and we need to share this work. Instead of backing away from emotional labour out of fear that we are being exploitative, we can ask ourselves “Is it consensual? Is it valued? Is it reciprocated?” And if we can genuinely answer yes to these questions, we can accept that labour with gratitude and respect.”

— Three Thoughts on Emotional Labour – GUTS (via thatdiabolicalfeminist)

(Source: gutsmagazine.ca, via en--dear)

thelovejournals:

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses.

(via en--dear)