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L’imaginaire de mon lieu … [naturally] dans le grand camouflage.

[Suzanne] Césaire in “Le grand camouflage” reads the Caribbean as interconnected space rather than as a series of discrete islands. Blurring both spatial and temporal boundaries, her authorial voice situates itself simultaneously in Haiti, Martinique, and Puerto Rico. “Le grand camouflage” is best characterized in Césaire’s own words as “le grand jeu de cache-cache,” a text that almost playfully weaves between veiling and revealing the geography, history, and social reality of race relations in the Antilles. Césaire deftly juggles the images of lucidity and what Keith Walker, in his introduction to the English translation of her collected works, describes as “the wilful blindness . . . the work it takes not to see.” It is in “Le grand camouflage” that Césaire finally fully takes on the role of the seer, that quality of the poet as voyant that she had until now only admired in others.

Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire’s Politics and Poetics of Liberation
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Small Axe July 2016.

Adler Guerrier – Wikipedia

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Wikipedia article on Adler Guerrier was made public today. With an appropriate not-easy-yet-emcompassing sentence.

“The exhibition Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot, showcased a large number of photographs, sculptures, drawings, prints, and collage work to contextualize Miami not only as a geographical site but also as a nuanced sociocultural territory through its arts production, politics, urban and natural landscapes.“

“To write a blues song

is to regiment riots

and pluck gems from graves.”

Haiku, Etheridge Knight

“… so my soul can sing”

Feeling Fucked Up, Etheridge Knight

Change everything

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We Organize to Change Everything : Fighting for Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice edited by Natalie Adler, Marian Jones, Jessie Kindig, Elizabeth Navarro, and Anne Rumberger.

A free ebook, via Verso and Lux–a socialist feminist magazine, examines the fight for abortion from the 1970s to the present, bringing together the voices of clinic defenders, health care providers, and the networks of feminist activists helping pregnant people obtain care from Mississippi to Mexico.

With contributions from: Jenny Brown, Naomi Braine, Verónica Cruz Sanchez of Las Libres, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Derenda Hancock and Kim Gibson of We Engage, Amelia Bonow of Shout Your Abortion, Barbara Winslow, Marian Jones, Jen Deerinwater, Raquel Reichard, Amy Littlefield and ReproJobs, Erin Matson and Shireen Rose Shakouri from Reproaction, Cheryl Rivera, Victoria Law, Marie Solis, Dr. Mary K. Bowman, Movimento di Lotta Femminile di Padova, Lizzie Presser, Arielle Swernoff, Mattie Lubchansky, and an introduction from Jessie Kindig.

graphics via shout your abortion.

Constructing a Regular Pentagon with Ruler and Compass

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A step-by-step ruler and compass construction of a regular pentagon. The construction is due to H. W. Richmond, “A Construction for a Regular Polygon of Seventeen Sides,” Quart. J. Pure Appl. Math., 26, 1893 pp. 206–207.

A regular pentagon is a five-sided polygon with sides of equal length and interior angles of 108° (3?/5 rad). Because 5 is a Fermat prime, you can construct a regular pentagon using only a straightedge and compass.

Earth

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A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all.

This book covers:

• Rewilding half the earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity

• A rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest

• Global veganism to cut down on energy and land use

• Worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production

• The involvement of everyone—even you!

Verso

Property Will Cost Us the Earth Direct Action and the Future of the Global Climate Movement by Verso Books, edited by Jessie Kindig.