Other's words to the forefront / les paroles des autres en premier plan

 

( Why I'm doing this )

In any case, recent appreciation for transcribing some of my readings has prompted me to do a weekly post of other quotes. I hope this will lead to dialogue within the simultaneously safer and colder realities of this virtual world. None of the quotes in this week's selection are longer than a page single paced but all of them combined will take more than 2 minutes to read. Read those that engage you in full, skip over others. They may or may not be related to any others. Comment on those that spoke to you, made you reflect or on those that disengaged you quickly, with why if you prefer. I will challenge myself not to offer my thoughts on any within the post. My bias will still be evident to the critical eye noticing what I do and don't quote, how much I quote, etc. and I will do my best to be accountable when shortcomings are shown to me.
 

( d�finition de la communaut� francophone )

 

( Same quote as above but in English - about defining what francophone community is )

 LJ ate the original descriptor of the below quote. Redefining "the West" as it has been experienced by an Indian emigrant.

( Redefining  )

 

( Reconnecting mental health to the body and challenging the foundation of why mental  )

 

( How one Native American learnt about himself and revisited his sexuality by partaking in community action )

 

( A psychiatrist refuses the construction of his blackness imposed by white supremacy (translated into English) )

 

( One academic offers a critical way to reconsider the above quote )

To Whom It May Concern:
I am not what I have tried to be!
Will I ever be able to write a few words correctly?
Will I ever learn not to misspell words?
No. Never. I am a cobbler.
-John Petracca

( the poet's grand-daughter's take on the poem and repositioning working class knowledge more generally within an academic frame )