Zen + the Real World

Ayer

Ahora mi preocupación es saber si él sabe que tienes ocho sonrisas para cuando estás feliz tres para el sarcasmo dos para la ironía me preocupa saber si el conoce de detalles que te ponen a brincar de alegría como una flor en la cocina sin aparente razón me preocupa saber si sabe como te gusta que te roben los besos si conoce cada detalle en el arte de abrazarte me preocupa saber si no se cansa de inventar universos y te dibuje sueños con papel y cartas si el ya conoce tu posición favorita para dormir tu lado preferido de la cama el debatir de la filosofía que nos inspira y no nos lleva a nada me preocupa mucho amor, que realmente estés contenta

The figure of the Arab assassin / rapist, like that of the African cannibal, produces the narrative and ideological role of the Western liberator as integral to the colonial rescue fantasy. This projection, whose imagistic avatars include the polygamous Arab, the libidinous black buck, and the macho Latino, provides and indirect apologia for domination. In the case of the Orient, it carries with it religious / theological overtones of the inferiority of the polygamous Islamic world to the Christian world as encapsulated by the monogamous couple. The justification of Western expansion, then, becomes linked to issues of sexuality… The positing of female sexual enslavement by polygamous Third World men becomes especially ironic when we recall the subjection of African American women slaves on Southern plantations within the daily lived polygamy of white male slaveowners. Images of black / Arab woman in “heat” versus “frigid” white woman also indirectly highlight the menacing figure of the black / Arab rapist and therefore mythically elide the history of subordination of Third World women by First World men. The hot-frigid dichotomy, then, implies three interdependent axioms within sexual politics of colonialist discourse: (1) the sexual interaction of black / Arab men and white women can only involve rape (since white women, within this perspective, cannot possibly desire black men); (2) the sexual interaction of white men and black / Arab women cannot involve rape (since black / Arab women are in perpetual heat and desire their white masters); and (3) the interaction of black / Arab men and black / Arab women also cannot involve rape (since both are in perpetual heat). It was this racist combinatoire that generated the (largely unspoken) rationale for the castration and lynching of African American men…

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.

»i need to talk« by geraint edwards

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.