tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post114749023600339480..comments2010-04-14T12:28:57.075-07:00Comments on Tigera Consciente: At War..Tigera Conscientehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05092507003024830786noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1149744973120896202006-06-07T22:36:00.000-07:002006-06-07T22:36:00.000-07:00oh, btw, the boy on your photograph looks striking...oh, btw, the boy on your photograph looks strikingly like my brother. i mean, just like cut and pasted! here's my <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/goozzzi/davran_muscles.jpg" REL="nofollow">little munchkin bro</A> (although he's already 16 now, but that's how i last saw and remember him).skyscraperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01903498440395397233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1149743348773516082006-06-07T22:09:00.000-07:002006-06-07T22:09:00.000-07:00wow. ditto to all of the above women's comments.th...wow. ditto to all of the above women's comments.<BR/>this is intense, emotionally dense and inciteful, woman! your every word is so powerful. <BR/><BR/>you're very right, too, that it's a huge task to learn to channel that rage into some constructive energy and civil resistance. i know exactly (like i have no doubt all of us here) how it feels when you're so sick and fed up with all the shit around you, and when you feel powerless and desperate over changing anything in peaceful ways, and just want to fucking blow everybody up!<BR/><BR/>arhhhh, such an overwhelming task to control and positivize that immense impulse to just kill, oppress, humiliate, torture those who have done it to you and your people! so they, too, could finally know what it feels like to be you.<BR/>thank you for being so honest and fearless at expressing this. it's beautiful.skyscraperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01903498440395397233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1147914610409630562006-05-17T18:10:00.000-07:002006-05-17T18:10:00.000-07:00oops.. part of WHAT this feeling is about..oops.. part of <I> WHAT </I> this feeling is about..Tigera Conscientehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05092507003024830786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1147840415181801582006-05-16T21:33:00.000-07:002006-05-16T21:33:00.000-07:00i think the danger comes when it is hard to channe...i think the danger comes when it is hard to channel that rage and when it almost takes over you... it is a powerful and scarey feelin.. i think at those times i have to evaluate whether i'm being as affective as i can be to my fullest potential in channeling that rage/making change/fighting at war... i think... that's part of when this feeling is about.. the war taking over me.. i'm tryin to still understand it myself.. but rage seems to be the clearest thing to me right now.. rage and everything that incites it...Tigera Conscientehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05092507003024830786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1147807576018930252006-05-16T12:26:00.000-07:002006-05-16T12:26:00.000-07:00mami, tus palabras, they strike each of us at the ...mami, <BR/>tus palabras, they strike each of us at the core. echo our own anger and frustatrations. our constant negotiations with the what we could/should/need to do. <BR/>in these moments i reflect and i begin to take an inventory of my arsenal and although they may not be physical weapons with which to inflict hurt...<BR/>they remind me of Fanon, of the violence of which he speaks in the wretched of the earth. we must begin to take up ideas, words, actions, thoughts, each of which violently attacks, subverts, dismisses, recreates. we call upon our mothers plead for their fortaleza. and move into attack mode. existing within the belly of the beast hoping to the creator the heartburn, indigestion, and dysentaria kick in and break down the beast. make it so ill with itself that it will destroy itself.<BR/>rosita, tu energia, your rage, your woes, keep you livin', keep you movin'. thank you for sharing and describing that which i struggle with, el dolor we have inherited and that we seek to heal.<BR/>love you.<BR/>lismama alaghomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01406919552387600309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1147711554180627992006-05-15T09:45:00.000-07:002006-05-15T09:45:00.000-07:00I love this. I love it. This is beautiful. The pow...I love this. I love it. This is beautiful. The power is in every last one of your words. I know this feeling so well. I can't help but cry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26074925.post-1147632955011310362006-05-14T11:55:00.000-07:002006-05-14T11:55:00.000-07:00OH MY WOWOW! Tigera--this was very powerful. "Mama...OH MY WOWOW! Tigera--this was very powerful. "Mama's gun" type stuff-cred to e.badu...i forgot who said " a man is conscious when he/she is in a constant state of rage." your words were so powerful..they drew me into what you were experiencing and actually made me emotional...and of course, i love that you signed your permission slip to feel and share your heart! that's whats up sis! i really enjoyed reading this....thank you for sharing and being so damn fly. on that note, i'm off <BR/><BR/>xoxo kilaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com