Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
capacity to solicit the participation of publics,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“from the personal, the striving toward wholeness individually and within the community, comes the political, the struggle against those forces that render individuals and communities unwhole. The personal is political, especially for Black women.”
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
Politically, Smart America came to be associated with the Democratic Party.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
not limited to commercial or corporate interests.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
The media tends to emphasize dissenting rather than mainstream views.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American intellectual
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American media recruits to export our propaganda.”