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CPE, James Baldwin, and Pastoring while Queer

CPE, James Baldwin, and Pastoring while Queer

Trigger Warning: mention of anti-trans violence, homophobia, murder

“The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant.” – James Baldwin in the 1984 edition Preface to Notes of a Native Son

“I know / I will see you tonight. / And snow / may fall / enough to freeze our tongues / and scald our eyes. / We may never be found again! // Just as the birds above…

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A tabernacle relief with flanking angels, 1480-1510, polychromed marble. LOCHVS SANCTUS, LAVS DEO // Holy Place, Praise God. I love tabernacles so much. #churchnerd #BlessedSacrament ——————————————————— Spent an hour or so after work at the @clevelandmuseumofart relishing some of the #medieval and #Renaissance pieces. They have an amazing collection. And free! Support your local art museums! #cpefeelz #museum #cleveland #cma #clevelandartmuseum #westernarthistory #adventuresinarthistory #museumtherapy #arttherapy #statues #medievalart #sacredart (at The Cleveland Museum of Art)

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Virgin and Child from Burgundy or Alsace, sandstone, 1310-1340. How many knelt before this statue of Our Lady in intercession? "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death." #marian #devotion #OurLady #OraProNobis ——————— Spent an hour or so after work at the @clevelandmuseumofart relishing some of the #medieval and #Renaissance pieces. They have an amazing collection. And free! Support your local art museums! #cpefeelz #museum #cleveland #cma #clevelandartmuseum #westernarthistory #adventuresinarthistory #museumtherapy #arttherapy #statues #medievalart #sacredart (at The Cleveland Museum of Art)

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(via Same Love (Remix) By Art Attack (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube)

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(via Drone Bomb Me - by ANOHNI on Vimeo)

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Here’s where thinking about neoliberalism as a governing rationality is important: this rationality switches the meaning of democratic values from a political to an economic register. Liberty is disconnected from either political participation or existential freedom, and is reduced to market freedom unimpeded by regulation or any other form of government restriction. Equality as a matter of legal standing and of participation in shared rule is replaced with the idea of an equal right to compete in a world where there are always winners and losers. The promise of democracy depends upon concrete institutions and practices, but also on an understanding of democracy as the specifically political reach by the people to hold and direct powers that otherwise dominate us. Once the economization of democracy’s terms and elements is enacted in law, culture, and society, popular sovereignty becomes flatly incoherent. In markets, the good is generated by individual activity, not by shared political deliberation and rule. And, where there are only individual capitals and marketplaces, the demos, the people, do not exist.

Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? | Dissent Magazine

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https://youtu.be/4pFkWPGU4VY

Seth Matebeni is one of my heroes. I wish I could have met her while I was in Cape Town. 

(via Zethu Matebeni of UCT speaks at the 12th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Dialogue Series - YouTube)

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(via Queer Dreams Part 1: What are We Fighting For? on Vimeo)

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There’s the poverty of the cockroach kingdom and the rusted toilet bowl The poverty of to steal food for the first time The poverty of to mouth a penis for a paycheck The poverty of sweet charity ladling Soup for the poor who must always be there for that There’s the poverty of theory poverty of the swollen belly shamed Poverty of the diploma mill the ballot that goes nowhere Princes of predation let me tell you There are poverties and there are poverties There’s the poverty of cheap luggage bursted open at immigration The poverty of the turned head, the averted eyes The poverty of bored sex of tormented sex The poverty of the bounced check the poverty of the dumpster dive The poverty of the pawned horn the poverty of the smashed reading glasses The poverty pushing the sheeted gurney the poverty cleaning up the puke The poverty of the pavement artist the poverty passed-out on pavement Princes of finance you who have not lain there     There are poverties and there are poverties There is the poverty of hand-to-mouth and door-to-door And the poverty of stories patched-up to sell there There’s the poverty of the child thumbing the Interstate And the poverty of the bride enlisting for war There’s the poverty of prescriptions who can afford And the poverty of how would you ever end it There is the poverty of stones fisted in pocket And the poverty of the village bulldozed to rubble Princes of weaponry who have not ever tasted war There are poverties and there are poverties There’s the poverty of wages wired for the funeral you Can’t get to the poverty of the salary cut There’s the poverty of human labor offered silently on the curb The poverty of the no-contact prison visit There’s the poverty of yard sale scrapings spread And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on street Prince let me tell you who will never learn through words There are poverties and there are poverties You who travel by private jet like a housefly Buzzing with the other flies of plundered poverties Princes and courtiers who will never learn through words Here’s a mirror you can look into:  take it:  it’s yours.

Ballad of the Poverties by Adrienne Rich

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These are beautiful.

LOS ANGELES — There is no mistaking the depth of investment in Flight Risk, Robert Pruitt’s new show at Koplin Del Rio. Eleven drawings on paper in charcoal, pastel, and mixed media range from large to enormous, possessing an authority won through years of honing his draughtmanship. Made while Pruitt was on residency earlier this year at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the finished works bear witness to a laser focus achieved during his stay.

Drawing an Afro-Future with the Past and Present

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjI1efWVT4)

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Baby Jesu giving his Momma, the BVM, some eyelash kisses. #Jesus #cutie #madonna #westernarthistory #nationalportraitgallery #london #namethepainting (at National Portrait Gallery)

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More flats in Pimlico. #Pimlico #London #Architecture (at Pimlico, London)

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"Monkeys and Dogs Playing" (1661) by Francis Barlowe at the @tategallery #WesternArtHistory #BritishArtHistory #arthistory #monkeys #dogs #dogsofinstagram #playingorfighting (at The Tate Britain)

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"Inscription 'Ex Divina Pulchritudine'" (1926) by Eric Gill. A reference to a Thomas Aquinas quote which roughly translates to (according to the Tate inscription) "Divine Beauty is that from which all being is derived." #WesternArtHistory #BritishArtHistory #ThomasAquinas @tategallery #Latin (at Tate Britain)

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"Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers" (1769) by Joshua Reynolds at the Tate Britain @tategallery #arthistory #gay #hottiesofarthistory #queerlovelookslike #queercouple #archery #lovers?

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Westminster Baptist Church, City of Westminster, London. "Prepare to meet thy God" #StarkSummer2k15 #church #Architecture (at Westminster Baptist Church)