October 2011
South Dakota Profits When Native Kids Get Thrown... →
A year-long NPR News investigation has found that nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year. In South Dakota, Native American children make up less than 15 percent of the child population, yet they make up more than half of the children in foster care. Nearly 90 percent of them are in non-native homes or group homes, according to analysis...
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“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The...”
– Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
H/T The Rumpus
FUCKING READ THIS SHIT. NEXT TIME ANYONE THINKS IT’S OKAY TO RAG ON TRANS* PEOPLE (BECAUSE LOLOL THEIR EXISTENCE IS JUST SO FUNNY, ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT...
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“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via clairvoyants)
This!
Also, let’s just look at the word “let”. I think that pisses me off most in the sentence. When somebody, talking of a fat person, says, “They let...
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“I will not soon forget that President Obama was at a $7,500 a plate fundraiser...”
– Fordham University Professor Mark Naison (via socialismartnature)
Silly Obama, choosing to spend 7500 on fundraising instead of somehow using his superpowers to control the police because apparently the president can do all of the things all of the time and never has anything else to do.
(via...
“while i’m ragging on the white left…i went to a gender/sexuality studies...”
– nothing else rhymes: neo, marx. marx, neo. whoa… (via darkjez)
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Mass genocide of Mohawk children by UK Queen and... →
craftastrophies:
garconniere:
adailyriot:
BRANTFORD, ON, CANADA - Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970.
According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States...
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Rick Scott’s Pee Test Fails a Court Test
Two months ago, the Republican governor of Florida learned that his scheme to drug-test welfare recipients, at their expense, was a blig ol’ flop. This week, he learned it’s probably unconstitutional, too. Read a judge’s blistering highlights here.
GOOD.
Suck it, Rick Scott.
Thing about rubber bullets is that they are "less...
thefremen:
A .22 from a pistol is also less lethal than a .44, doesn’t make it suddenly OK to shoot people with.
The Science Of Irrationality →
Here’s a simple arithmetic question: “A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”
The vast majority of people respond quickly and confidently, insisting the ball costs 10 cents. This answer is both incredibly obvious and utterly wrong. (The correct answer is five cents for the ball and $1.05 for the bat.)
When people face an uncertain...
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A Black Woman Who Occupied Wall Street: Why She... →
darkjez:
thatprettyoddfeminist:
THIS is why i have trouble getting behind occupy wall street and other white-led movements. because despite how “progressive” people who lead them are, there is STILL rampant oppression within the movements. WOC are STILL silenced. and there is never anything done about it. if you like to think of white progressive as saints, it would seriously behoove you to...
Three children are looking for their mother, too... →
karnythia:
blackandmissing:
[Image: A slightly blurry black and white photograph from the shoulders up of Latasha Nevitt, a 30-year-old Black woman. She is facing the camera and smiling.]
It’s been two weeks since a 30-year-old South Side mother of three dropped out of sight.
Latasha Nevitt was last seen walking to a convenience store five blocks from her home in the 1300 block of West...
Please help my friend Monica →
mr-charming:
Stand in Solidarity with Monica Taylor
[Image: Picture from shoulders up of Monica Taylor.]
Monica Taylor needs your help. In her own words she has been on a life long “fist fight with the medical system” and now faces criminal charges for an act she did not commit. For years now, Monica has been dealing with a slowly progressive neurological condition called Ataxia. This...
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Things that people of minority groups don't owe...
nuestrahermana:
fromonesurvivortoanother:
“politeness” - not when your views are a direct assault on their humanity - and if you don’t understand why they are, too bad - that’s your issue to figure out
an explanation for why they are offended
their time
the time of day
open dialogue on the issue - there’s a ton of books for that— or you can go find someone and, instead of having this...
minddribble:
I can almost fucking guarantee you that the people that made those parody ‘We are a culture, not a costume’ fliers that @SaucySarah’s group made are the ones that the fliers were made for.
smh.
Co-sign. I think there’s more than a touch of irony (if that’s the word) in the fact that they’ve even made a Dalek parody one, and the Daleks entire basis for...
Open Letter to the PocaHotties and Indian Warriors...
deluxvivens:
Dear Person that decided to dress up as an Indian for Halloween, I was going to write you an eloquent and well-reasoned post today about all the reasons why it’s not ok to dress up as a Native person for Halloween—talk about the history of “playing Indian” in our country, point to the dangers of stereotyping and placing of Native peoples as mythical, historical creatures, give...
$15,000 Reward for Killer of Brooklyn Mom →
strugglingtobeheard:
A $15,000 reward is being offered to help find the killer of Zurana Horton, who died shielding schoolchildren from the gunfire of a rooftop shooter in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports.
I never heard about this woman and mother in the news. They are calling her a hero mom and in many ways, they should. It’s just sad she probably hasn’t gotten much...
“Q. Did the Police deploy rubber bullets, flash-bag grenades?
A. No, the loud...”
– Part of a Q&A sheet distributed by the Oakland Police Department regarding yesterday’s incident.
Read the rest of the Q&A press release here.
(via joshsternberg)
Lies and damned lies
(via depressingfacts)
M80 explosives.
If you needed any evidence that you lived in a fucking police...
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Knightley's 'don't touch me' order →
karnythia:
moonsdaughter:
evewithanapple:
rambomcclane:
anempiregame:
aaronburrlesque:
rambomcclane:
Keira Knightley is a fucking tool.
Fassy can spank me anytime.
um
i hate to be a fandom buzzkill
like, i adore fassy. but keira has every right to not want to be touched in a pretty damn sexual way by someone. just because he’s attractive doesn’t mean she’s obligated to have him...
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Anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year?
And if so, do you have any idea what you’ll be writing or are you (like me) just sort of hoping inspiration will hit on 12:00am Nov 1st?
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Jesus run a marathon™!
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
the shit with soy is STILL going down? i ain’t heard about the chick who is making MONEY off other people’s cultures in a minute, but people are still talking about her being called a bitch by a Latina for said appropriation?
PRIORITIES. YOURS ARE FUCKED UP.
Get you some fucking education.
HARD.
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Does the Americans with Disabilities Act allow one...
liquidiousfleshbag:
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donnapirana:
Once again, we see how being short is haaaaaaaaaard.
Being short is not a disability. You know this. Now spare a thought about how this joke of yours trivializes what people with real physical disabilities go through every single day, trying to navigate a world that works against them. I’m pretty sure their struggle doesn’t exist to be...
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Really into this "Gender Fierce Anthem" from a... →
xxboy:
I feel like this could be a great tool against dysphoria for those of you who identify off the binary. Follow the link for the video!
Oh my god, I love this song intensely. (Full disclosure, I am a binary-ID’ing person), but holy fucking crap this is just incredible lyricism and musical savoir faire all wrapped up into some kind of exquisite binary busting, floodgate opening...
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What you don't see in the U.S. history books: POC... →
angrybrownbaby:
I ran across this and found it interesting (though I knew a good portion of the history since I remember learning about this as a kid in Mexico). I think the title should say Mexican and Black American Solidarity, though. As per usual, I will mention that Black people and Mexicans are not mutually exclusive.
History of Mexican-Black solidarity
Published Apr 29, 2007 6:35...
Racist Arizona Immigration Law Earns It First... →
stfuconfederates:
humanizingimmigration:
“I think it was racism, for being Hispanic,” said the pastor, who is talking with lawyers to file a legal appeal after being deprived of his liberty. Hernández said that as soon the detective stopped him, he asked for his documentation, obviously doubting his legal status in the country. The pastor showed his Mexican passport and his Mexican Consular ID...
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“Suddenly there was a loud banging at the door and voices shouting “Police!” and...”
– “We Don’t Need a Warrant, We’re ICE” » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
that comment about the warrant coming from his balls—make no mistake of it, this type of sexual aggression during these raids is completely normal. The first raid that I covered had...
jumblejo:
polyesterspectre:
Calling the Confederate battle flag a racist symbol isn’t playing the “Race Card,” it’s playing the “Accurate Fucking History Card.”
[Image: A gif of stadium sign type lights that blink yellow and red and spell out the word “THIS”. Gif removed for accessibility. See the original here.]
I really want to make this into a chapter that we have to put...
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“The most well-funded organizations in the gay and lesbian movement do not...”
– Dean Spade: Compliance is Gendered (via delisubthefemmecub)
Solidarity: Calling Out a Corporate Sponsor at a... →
Make the connection of all of our liberation clear in your mind, because if you achieve equality with this racist, transphobic ruling class, you have assimilated into my enemy. You have left a sea of bodies in your hurried wake. Bodies who are continuously policed by this system for existing outside of gender norms, for not being white, for being disabled, for being born in foreign countries, or...