September 2010
“Oppression of men of color needs patriarchal oppression of white women, and the...”
– Asking The Right Questions (via thetart)
Seriously. Although in here I would add class, class, class. Because the cards at the base of the structure include capitalism.
(via champagnecandy)
And transphobia, fatphobia, culturocentrism, etc etc. This stuff just all interlocks like a 3D fractal...
“If this was racism, there would be no hope, because people are not going to...”
– Brooklyn Tea Party President John Press, explaining why he favors “culturism” rather than “racism”.
This quote is worth a moment’s examination. This is a New York white conservative saying that there’s no hope for “racism” because you can’t make everybody white, which would obviously be the ideal....
If you can't tell your allies from your enemies,...
I’ve had an aggravating few days re: activist stuff on my tumblr feed and elsewhere, and it’s come from people claiming to be allies either to me or to other oppressed folks, and I needed to get this out of my system.
If I post or write or blog or otherwise publish some kind of writing or expression of my lived experience as it concerns my marginalization as a woman or a fat person or...
“I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s...”
– WORD. (via -tabularasa)
So. Activist Internet. What the fuck is up with...
genderbitch:
Doesn’t that strike you as a little fucking fatphobic?
Just sayin’
Abagond: American Privilege →
ancestryinprogress:
triangleeyes:
I cannot tell you how long I’ve been meaning to do a post on this very subject - especially with the numerous posts I see on tumblr that address almost every other type of privilege (heterosexual, white, male, able-bodied, cis-gendered, wealthy, etc) but American and Western privilege. In some earlier posts of mine, I tried to combat this topic through...
fuck yeah fat positive: Excellent post about... →
fuckyeahfatpositive:
ilykadamen:
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I don’t consider my flesh a separate thing for me to control. Control with what?—The same circulatory system that feeds my pancreas nourishes my brain. I’m not seeing the separation, and trying to force myself to has generally resulted in poorer health outcomes for me than not….
colored queer waters: My love/hate relationship... →
navigatethestream:
One of the comments on the first plus size picture i posted was “are you guys forgetting Monique, Oprah, Gabourey Sidibe?”
the short answer in my brain is NO, i didn’t forget them. I feel as though society knows who they are.
I also feel when it comes to Monique and Oprah, society will remember…
Remarkably, this quote is the reason I sometimes...
peskipiksi-pesternomi:
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
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John Green | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
In response to the title that I’m reblogging:
The thing about quotes like these is that “remarkable” is relative and doesn’t always mean doing some big, global-scale thing that gets the attention...
“I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if...”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via obsessionful)
Pledgie — Donate To: "JessiBee Housing Fund" →
girlvanized:
jessiebee:
Here goes nothing - or something. This is the Pledgie my BMFIFF set up for me to help me get caught up on my back mortgage in an effort to keep my home from foreclosure.
I’ve lived in this house for 10 years and never had a problem until I became disabled. Even then I tried to keep working in order to keep paying my bills. But last year my health took a dramatic...
“My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer,...”
– CHRIS ROCK, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time (via labels-love-loyalty, inothernews) (via brujaporvida) (via aboardchelonioidea)
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Another Way to Support Mia & CripChick →
thingsimreading:
Linking to the Thaura Distro book sale again because it has received little attention and even less donations.
Please note that you can donate as little as $1*, pick a book, and you will receive that book and a free gift from Thaura Distro, and you don’t even have to pay postage for it.
So it’s really truly a win-win-win all around. We pass on books to loving homes, you get a...
““WHY, IF SOCIETY WANTS ME TO BE THIN, CAN I NOT FIND CLOTHES TO EXERCISE IN?”
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– Comment I got on this post.
Reading comprehension, assumptions and logic are a bitch, ACTUALLY.
(via definatalie)
I just want to dissect this comment that definatalie received because it sort of encapsulates everything about fatphobia that I’ve been facing recently and does it very, very...
Dissimilation by Shweta Narayan →
This is assimilation: when I was twelve, and moved to a school which had another Indian student in the year (80 students), I did not dare talk to her or even hint that I might want to. When I was thirteen, and someone said something like “You people are all swots aren’t you, little robots that calculate all the time”, and the whole class laughed, I laughed too. When I was fourteen and hanging...
Dissimilation by Shweta Narayan →
This is assimilation: when I was twelve, and moved to a school which had another Indian student in the year (80 students), I did not dare talk to her or even hint that I might want to. When I was thirteen, and someone said something like “You people are all swots aren’t you, little robots that calculate all the time”, and the whole class laughed, I laughed too. When I was fourteen and hanging...
