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I was not born into the wrong body. I was born into a world that doesn’t know what my body means.

FROM THE VAULT: Ollie Schminkey - “Boobs” (CUPSI 2014)

Ollie Schminkey, performing for Macalester College at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.

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Portraits by Alex Hainer

Rising NYC-based photographer and film-maker Alex Hainer is a master of mood. Each of her dreamy images tell a story and entrance you in the natural beauty of her subjects. 

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Huey P. Newton

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“All during this time, Bobby and I had no thought of the Black Panther Party, no plan to head up any organization, and the ten-point program was still in the future. We had seen Watts rise up the previous year. We had seen how the police attacked the Watts community after causing the trouble in the first place. We had seen Martin Luther King come to Watts in an effort to calm the people, and we had seen the philosophy of nonviolence rejected. Black people had been taught nonviolence; it was deep in us. What good, however was nonviolence when the police were determined to rule by force? We had seen the Oakland police and the California highway patrol begin to carry their shotguns in full view as another way of striking fear into the community. We had seen seen all this, and we recognized that the rising consciousness of Black people was almost at the point of explosion. One must relate to the history of one’s community and to its future, Everything we had seen convinced us that our time had come.”

- Huey P. Newton, “The Founding Of The Black Panther Party” 

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Angela Davis, being interviewed at Marin County Jail, in California, in 1972

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Queen Nanny, the “hidden queen” fought to free Africans from English slavery and rule. Also called Queen Muhmusa or Tahtahme,  Nanny of the Maroons was born in Ghana, and folk history says that she came to Jamaica with the express purpose of becoming a high priestess and leader of her people, never having been a slave. She was an obeah-woman who led the eastern Maroons based in Moreton, and forged an alliance with another group led by Cudjoe. (The name Maroons comes from the Spanish cimarron,meaning “gone back to the wild.”)  The Jamaican Maroons were the first people to force the English to sign a treaty with their subjects, on March 1, 1738. The lands conceded in this treaty formed a base for the Maroon’s independent survival. One of these communities was named Nannytown after the female Ghanaian leader. Maroon country was so feared by the English that it became known as the “Land of Look-Behind.”

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