Angela Davis - Tumblr Posts
Honestly “Are Prisons Absolete?” By Angela Davis should be entry level reading to call yourself any sort of leftist or anarchist or whatever. It’s literally under 100 pages and written in v accessible, colloquial language.
And honestly, if you haven’t read it you aren’t allowed to add comments to my prison abolition posts lol
“When I travelled to Palestine in the summer of 2011, with a delegation of women of colour and indigenous feminists and activists, it was actually the first trip for all of us, but all of us had been involved for many years with Palestine solidarity work, we were all totally shocked by the egregious and visible nature of the oppression. The israeli military made no attempt to conceal or mitigate the violence they were inflicting on Palestinian people, gun-toting military men and women were everywhere. I was in South Africa before the downfall of apartheid, and I also had travelled to Northern Ireland at one of the most difficult periods, neither place was as bad as I witnessed in Occupied Palestine.”
— Angela Davis (via theyoungradical)
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1972
Event Flier featuring several artists, including Pete Seeger for a celebration with Angela Davis
Book recommendations for reading on Palestine with overviews or access to the content:
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 - 2017 by Rashid Khalidi
The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Bunton
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine edited by Diana Allan
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Huraini (Afterword by Malise Ruthven for later editions)
Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.
Happy pride month!! Here’s some queer ppl 🌈