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additional notes on furry and the art world Alyaza Birze (August 22, 2026) canonical link: "additional notes on furry and the art world" [...] what we call “the art world” ultimately exists to maintain a structure of hierarchy.

on the furry neighborhood Alyaza Birze (August 21, 2026) canonical link: "on the furry neighborhood" Only gay people who were able to access enough money to separate from their oppressive communities of origin were able to create visible, gay-friendly hou…

I’m not at all embarrassed at the use of the word freak.

There's a lot of unspoken and assumed pressure for furries to be patrons of the arts.

[...]we should note [the public forum's] centrality for political debates where interest groups attempt to bypass the traditional structures of democratic process in order to force the enactment of laws in the name of the "good" of a population which is n…

Why does any of this matter, anyways?

The cause of communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation, to liberate mankind and to ensure peace and prosperity to all.

Alyaza Birze (February 26, 2026) on the tension of furry artistry and high culture or, the trap of ‘high culture’ and the desert of the future They just want you to perfume the sewers.

If now the world of culture bends itself toward giving Negroes and other dark men the largest and broadest opportunity for education and self-development, then this contact and influence is bound to have a beneficial effect upon the world and hasten human…

Alyaza Birze (February 25, 2026) From very early on in the history of the epidemic, Aids has been mobilised to a prior agenda of issues concerning the kind of society we wish to inhabit. [...]

If anything praiseworthy is to be done, it must be done through unity.

Today we need a clear understanding of where we're going.

We stand firmly committed to a nationalist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist position.

Pan-Africanism is a people's movement, a struggle against the unjust and ruthless oppression of the African people.

Do not let anyone keep you from working for peace or using the word peace.

It was the great Frederick Douglass, who had a price on his head, who said "Without struggle, there is no progress."

It is sufficient to say that socialist thought has seen nothing like this since the death of Lenin in 1924, and its depth, range and the repercussions which flow from it, go far beyond the Africa which gave it birth.

We want to build a new Africa, and only we can build it[...]

[...] in adopting the line of a nonracial approach, the liberals are playing their old game.

Let it then be understood, as a great principle of political economy, that no people can be free who themselves do not constitute an essential part of the ruling element of the country in which they live.

It is the African converts to Mohammedanism and the Negro colonists from Christian countries, who have, thus far, done most for the permanent advance of civilisation in equatorial Africa; and it is these who seem to me to be the only capable and efficient…

We must stop fooling the masses with minor patchwork and bring about the ultimate break with all the fake structures (Communauté, Commonwealth, Eurafrica) which have no historical future.

Colo-mentality / If you say you be colonial man / You don be slave man before / Them don release you now / But you never release yourself De ting wey Black no good, na foreign things them dey like: no be so?

Shut off my body against dangers take me away on the wings of your expanding mobility enlarge me into your lineage of irony preventative against my indomitable passion mature me to your insolent idiom we shall shock puritans unmask hypocrites sons of bitc…

⁵⁰ The slave ship!

We should not therefore be content to delve into the people's past to find concrete examples to counter colonialism's endeavor to distort and depreciate.

We must widen the debates, make them democratic, multiply contacts at all levels.

At this moment, we have little choice but to recognize that masculine behavior comprises vanity, irresponsibility, arrogance, and violence of all kinds toward women.

It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist.

The masses cannot be regarded as a band of passive individuals who carry out certain tasks that are dictated to them.

For too long have Africans slept.

O brother of mine, be yours!

"For it is not efficiency of production, nor the amount of wealth in a country, which make millionaires; it is the uneven distribution of what is produced.

"The people of Guine and Cape Verde do not take any great pride in the fact that every day, because of circumstances created and imposed by the Government of Portugal, an increasing number of young Portuguese are dying ingloriously before the withering fi…

"While there is no hard and fast dogma for socialist revolution, and specific circumstances at a definite historical period will determine the precise form it will take, there can be no compromise over socialist goals.

Alyaza Birze (September 3, 2025) in an attempt to balance out my non-fiction reading imbalance (currently, 78% of my reading is non-fiction) i've been working on my backlog of fiction books to read. this is easier said than done—i'm rather selective with…