http://www.enoughenough.org/2008/07/the-suspension-of-fear/ The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:03:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.enoughenough.org/2008/07/the-suspension-of-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-11949 There is a #LoveLetter Here, Somewhere « Nuñez Daughter Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:38:42 +0000 http://www.enoughenough.org/blog/20/the-suspension-of-fear/#comment-11949 [...] (a letter I’m not brave enuf to write yet) Via blackfeminismlives:One of the functions of educational institutions, is two fold: Quarantine a small minority of radical or potentially radical intellectuals into tenured positions and push them farther and farther away from communities struggling towards a more desirable system; while the rest of us, public intellectuals—people who don’t need buildings to think—many of us who have fought to get here, we get saddled with debt, huge amounts of debt…So we internalize the belief that we have to get a job. And this process—getting the job, paying off the debt—serves to estrange us from the communities that we may have been connected to in struggle before we became indebted, or prevents us from being able to connect with those communities. — Sailor Holladay [...] [...] (a letter I’m not brave enuf to write yet) Via blackfeminismlives:One of the functions of educational institutions, is two fold: Quarantine a small minority of radical or potentially radical intellectuals into tenured positions and push them farther and farther away from communities struggling towards a more desirable system; while the rest of us, public intellectuals—people who don’t need buildings to think—many of us who have fought to get here, we get saddled with debt, huge amounts of debt…So we internalize the belief that we have to get a job. And this process—getting the job, paying off the debt—serves to estrange us from the communities that we may have been connected to in struggle before we became indebted, or prevents us from being able to connect with those communities. — Sailor Holladay [...]

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