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Magic Mushrooms   -   Anke Roder , 2015.

Dutch,b.1964-

Was it you who felt every part of my heart?

Did I confide my deepest secrets within your soul?

9:15PM

on the would be 69th birthday of fallen revolutionary, fred hampton, i want to repeat this rare story deminta frazer told during the combahee river collective and the black feminist tradition panel at socialism 2017.

*~*when frazer was around 15/16 she used to spend her mornings volunteering with the free breakfast program at the chicago chapter of the black panther party where hampton was stationed. she mentioned when she entered her teen years she was routinely cat called and harassed but hampton was one of the only men who totally respected her agency and would pull her to the side to ask her how she was doing. frazer said something along the lines of ‘he showed the love and respect that black men can show to black women’ and that influenced how she accepts the same treatment from every dude that comes her way.

when he was murdered in cold blood by the chicago pd with fbi cointelpro intelligence, she was devastated that a man who had such a profound impact on her understanding of solidarity was taken at the tender age of 21. *~*