new highlight methods from reading all about love

last year, i read bell hooks’ all about love. i’m still reeling from the number of ways that it changed my life, but one of them is that it totally changed my “highlight” game (and by highlight i really mean just markup)! i’ve never read a book that i wanted to highlight so much. some times i would mark entire pages.

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whiteness and property ownership: the right to exclude

two weeks ago, maureen and i went to go see claudia rankine’s talk on whiteness in boston (we also went to see toshi reagon’s in-progress opera for parable of the sower, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic).

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why i’m really into baking sourdough right now

baking bread for me goes back to my gainesville catholic worker house (gcw) days (2008-2010). it was a formative part of my spiritual development and shaped my thinking about justice work.

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anne braden on developing her justice work

a few weeks ago, my friend anna tipped me off to this awesome interview with anne braden. i was introduced to anne braden (via her work) at the gainesville catholic worker house and i’ve been a fan ever since. she just seems like one of those people who has woken up. the way she works for justice in the world and the things she says
 i just dig it all.

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the search for consistency and coherence

this is sort of a strange post, but i need to go ahead and get out of my backlog.

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