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Gritaram-Me Negra! [They Shouted, Black Girl!]

By: jé judson August 3, 2016August 10, 2024

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**Tinha sete anos apenas, [I was only seven years old] apenas sete anos, [only seven years old] Que sete anos! [what seven years?!] Não chegava nem a cinco! [I wasn’t even five!] De repente umas vozes na rua [when suddenly some voices in the street] me gritaram Negra! [shouted, “black girl!”] Negra! Negra! Negra! Negra!…

Naguib Mahfouz on Home

By: jé judson July 25, 2016August 10, 2024

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Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

-Naguib Mahfouz

First World Problems

By: jé judson October 10, 2012August 10, 2024

Liberatediasporic solidarity, economic justice, imperialism, overconsumption, rethinking positionalityLeave a Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxyhfiCO_XQ&feature=youtu.be

Keep it in perspective

Cultural Retentions

By: jé judson July 11, 2011August 10, 2024

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The transatlantic slave trade was really something, the way culture was retained in the harshest of circumstances, from food to instruments. I learned to play the berimbau as part of the Afro-Brazilian culture of Capoeira. I don’t know what they call this instrument in Burundi, but it is WILD what our ancestors endured and yet…