digital bodies

H/T to Anne Ralph for this version

J Harris’ story via Cowbird on being arrested at Occupy Oakland

Berkeley students and professors unite and hold strong.  Police brutality is a abomination of our democratic system.

Students occupy and reclaim their university, courageously staying even in the face of police brutality.  UC Davis.

“It matters that as bodies we arrive together in public.  As bodies, we suffer.  We require food.  And shelter.  And as bodies, we require one another. In dependency and desire.  So this is a politics of the public body.  The requirements of the body. Its movement and its voice…We sit and stand and move as the popular will.” h/t to Trevor Hoag

“She was always different, always not like the others.  She was the other.”

Inspired by finishing the beautiful book, Just Kids by Patti Smith.