April 2012
13 posts
from todays events,
I had a simulation in class today, practicing my skills as a social worker on a client who is stuggling with accepting he’s going on welfare. The male ego is something very strange…
leave class to go to the pub with my group ( the “gays”, as they labeled themselves not I). Ok, cool fun time… going to lcbo to move the party to Drews house…
we end up helping...
March 2012
28 posts
ran into an old friend
he told me i looked happy.
he looked into my eyes and said they sparkle with a warmth
they didn’t used to have
he asked me
what changed
what changed is i moved on, i let go
and i wished him all the best
in his quest for happy
Lately,
I have been in a happy place, maybe its the weather maybe its something else…
but I am in a good place, my heart is contented.
its like… one of those moments where the sky has opened up and the harps are playing and the angels are singing and the sun is beaming down….
I’m happy with everything…
Every aware black person who has been the “only” in an all-white setting knows...
– bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation, “Loving Blackness as Political Resistance”, pp. 16, 18-21 (via urshermaleek)
i have this...
annoying dream every night, that I’m rich not famous.
that i hop on my jet and set of where ever i want.
that my pent house has an amazing veiw of the city of the night….
I have intentions on making this happen.
I tell every one I get what I want, I’m a dreamer.
What's your theoretical perspective
They keep asking me. My theory is I have one life to live. My perspective is the one I see the things in front of me from…
Then they ask no, one that we’ve learned. Well I am a womyn… And I am a black female… With an afro… So I suppose….
I’m a ” black feminist ” in terms - but don’t quote me.
bell hooks, and Angela Davis, I...
as a future social worker,
this invisible children thing gets me riled up,
how ever…. thewhite man going into africa to save the “invisible children”
oppressive much?
i feel a ways about that, but.. i’ll keep it in my head.
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
19 posts