“(Which, don’t even get me started, half the fun of listening to music and possibly more than half is context, this is a very nearly religious conviction for me, all hail context forever, I know this battle is already lost however I will be waging it til my dying breath, “context!” I will cry from my deathbed, “context!” I will say to those whom I haunt later on, “I got haunted and the best my ghost can come up to scare me with is ‘context’” my hauntees will complain, everyone’s a critic, however not everyone is a ghost, yet.)”
“I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment in Oakland with a German woman I found on Craigslist.
Not too long after, I walked to the bookstore and came out holding books by bell hooks, Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde. I looked down at the books and thought, I guess this is what happens when you break up with your boyfriend. You go to the feminist literature.”
Not too long after, I walked to the bookstore and came out holding books by bell hooks, Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde. I looked down at the books and thought, I guess this is what happens when you break up with your boyfriend. You go to the feminist literature.”
— Links I Like by Zoë Ruiz (via therumpus)
(via therumpus)
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- excellent
- so excellent
- so excellent, in fact, that I left my phone at the theatre
Japanese Americans who had been “relocated” to Chicago during the WW 2, enjoy a day at Oak Street Beach, 1949.
Paging Hanako for a 説明.
Relocated to Chicago after internment camps either during the war or immediately after it! I was talking to Jack about this and he didn’t believe me but miraculously somehow the U.S. government actually did realize that the internment was a huge embarrassment both domestically and internationally, so one of its wartime priorities after opening the camps was shuffling people out of them again and getting them closed up as soon as possible. Which also helped them pass the internment camps off as successful training grounds for democracy, by making such a big and public and celebratory deal of those loyal happy nisei who just loved America!!!! and whom America loved back!!!! Because even though democracy did this bad thing, they’re so loyal anyway, guys. Let’s reward that with freedom. Oh look at what a good job we did!!!!! America. Freedom! Democracy. We did it!!!!
Since these are young unmarried ladies I suspect for them it probably happened during the war as part of the Student Relocation Program, which dispersed a lot of college-aged nisei across the country because they were still banned from the west coast until the end of the war—and also because splitting them up made them appear more assimilated/less threatening because by necessity it stopped them from looking like they were only congregating with each other (WHY WOULD THEY EVER WANT TO DO THAT, wow i rly don’t know, but anyway before leaving camp they had to sign a release saying that they wouldn’t anymore because who kNOWS those instincts could kick in at any time). So a lot of them ended up on the east coast and the mid-west that way. Nurse training was a popular way for young women to leave the camps, and some of them were able to leave through marriage to non-Japanese men, or Japanese American men in the military after the ban on their enlisting was lifted in 1943.
cc: elizabethfama
