CHECKLIST

MONGREL CHECKLIST

❏   WHAT ARE YOU PROTECTING

❏   WE WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY IT

❏   IF IT MEANS SO MUCH TO YOU THEN SAY THE WORDS

❏   JUST SAY "I NEED WHITENESS TO SUCCEED/SURVIVE"

❏   JUST SAY “I NEED WHITENESS BECAUSE MY IMAGINATION IS DEAD”

❏   SAY “I NEED WHITENESS TO TELL ME MY WORK IS GOOD ENOUGH”

❏   RIGHT NOW

❏   IF YOU LIVE BY WHAT YOU DEFEND THEN SAY IT

❏   YOU WANNA FIGHT US BECAUSE YOU DID NOT FIGHT THEM

❏   GLOBAL CONCEPTUALISM:  YOUR BRAND

❏   THE U.S. AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE: YOUR BRIGADE

❏   BUT WHAT IF YOU'RE JUST THEIR ACCESSORY

❏   ARE YOU OK WITH BEING A LUXURY ITEM AROUND THE FINGERS OF YR KING & QUEEN

❏   ARE YOU OK WITH BEING THE TAIL OF TOILET PAPER STUCK TO THEIR SHOE

❏   WHAT DO YOU LOSE WHEN YOU CEASE TO LABEL YOURSELF “CONCEPTUALIST”?

❏   WILL YOUR STOCKS PLUMMET?

❏   RESPECT POC EXPERIENCE AS LITERACY

❏   HONOR POC EXPERIENCE AS LITERACY

❏   IF YOU ARE OK WITH THEIR CONQUEST THEN SAY IT

❏   IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE POLITICS OF FORM IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE POETRY OF DISPOSSESSION IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE MEMORY OF MICHAEL BROWN AND THE MUTILATION OF THAT MEMORY THEN SAY IT

❏   REFUSE THEIR BRANDING IRON & LEAVE THE HERD.  TEAR THEIR SHRINKWRAP OFF YOUR AESTHETIC PRACTICE

❏   INCLUSION IS NOT RADICAL

❏   DIVERSITY IS NOT RADICAL

❏   BECOME THEIR TOKEN, BECOME THEIR MOUTHPIECE

❏   WHEN YOU USE YOUR MACHISMO WHEN YOU USE YOUR QUEERNESS WHEN YOU USE YOUR FEMINISM WHEN YOU USE YOUR NON-BLACK RACIALIZATION TO DROWN OUT THE ECHOES OF COLONIAL PILLAGING

❏   YOU ARE THEIR SHIELD—BUT YOU AREN'T OUR TARGET

❏   DO YOU ENJOY THE HOUSE THEY BUILT YOU IN THEIR FOOTNOTES

❏   YES YOU ARE A REAL ICONOCLAST LITTLE DIRTY SNOWFLAKE

❏   POWDERED WIG, POWDERED BROWN SKIN, SO NOBLE AMONG THE GENTRY!

❏   DO YOU HAND OVER FELLOW POC BEFORE INTERROGATING WHITENESS

❏   HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE YOUR EDUCATION TO CALL US IGNORANT

❏   HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE YOUR EDUCATION TO SET YOURSELF APART

❏   DO YOU AGREE WITH THE PRECIOUS WHITE ASSESSMENT: “YOU’RE NOT LIKE THE OTHERS”

❏   ARE YOU “MORE DEVOTED TO ‘ORDER’ THAN TO JUSTICE”

❏   DO YOU REPLICATE INSTITUTIONAL OPPRESSION IN YOUR RHETORIC AGAINST FELLOW POC

❏   DO YOU RECOGNIZE BLACK SUFFERING

❏   FROM THE SAFETY OF YOUR CAR WINDOW

❏   DO YOU THINK RETWEETING NEWS AND IMAGES OF BLACK PAIN MAKES YOU EMPATHETIC 

❏   YOU SURE TAKE UP A WHOLE LOT OF FUCKEN SPACE WITH YOUR SOLIDARATIOUSNESS

❏   TO GAUGE HOW DEEP THE BRAND HAS GONE HOW DEEP IT HAS SEARED ITSELF INTO YOUR AESTHETICS YOUR POETRY YOUR POLITICS YOUR BODIES—THAT’S—NOT—OUR—JOB

❏   REFUSE TO MUD-WRESTLE WITH MONGREL KIN FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT

❏   YOU WANNA FIGHT US BECAUSE YOU DID NOT FIGHT THEM

❏   ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ALLIES, THE COMPLICITY OF THEIR SILENCE

❏   “I DISAGREE WITH MCAG’S TACTICS/AGGRESSION/WORDING BUT I KINDA SEE WHERE THEY’RE COMING FROM”—HEY FUCK YOUR EQUIVOCATIONS

❏   WE FUCKEN SEE YOU FLAILING ON THAT TIGHTROPE

❏   FOR A REC LETTER FOR A BLURB FOR A DRINK FOR A FUCK FOR A GOLDEN TICKET TO THE INNER CIRCLE

❏   NEVER LET THEM DRAW THE LINES

❏   DON’T BE DISTRACTED BY FAME ON THEIR TERMS

❏   DON’T THINK FOR ONE SECOND THAT YOU ARE NOT EXPENDABLE

❏   WE ARE NOT MONGRELS ONLY WHEN IT’S CONVENIENT

❏   IF YOU CLAIM OTHERNESS, CLAIM THAT STRUGGLE, THEN CLAIM ITS FIGHT EVERY DAY

❏   WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

❏   THIS IS OUR GLORY HOLE

❏   EVERY FLYING SPECK OF DIRT IS OUR LIBERATION

 

The mongrel revolution is never about people we (dis)like.
The mongrel revolution isn’t about your book.
The mongrel revolution isn’t about collectible acquaintances
The mongrel revolution isn’t about power games.

The mongrel revolution is about comrades who will bail you out of jail and destroy the cell.
The mongrel revolution is about (re)membering.
The mongrel revolution is about collectivizing invisibility.
We fight back with unapologetic demands.
We fight back for ourselves and yes even for you.
We fight back.
We fight
We fight

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