May 2011
“I’m fat positive because your weight doesn’t have any necessary relationship to...”
– From a fantastic post “Why I’m Fat Positive” by You’re Welcome (via heyfatchick)
yo, this post really is fantastic. another quote:
I’m fat positive because no matter what size you are, you shouldn’t be ashamed. You shouldn’t have to turn on the TV to see therapists making anorexic women cry,...
“Usually when a black woman is attacked we find some way of making it her fault....”
– Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as Violence « The Crunk Feminist Collective
I hate when something is so great that I have to choose between feeling guilty about chopping it or feeling guilty about c&p’ing the entire thing. Hit the link, it’s that good.
(via tart-tart)
(via...
Here's a quick way to check if you have the right...
vicki3t:
gaywitchpracticingabortion:
Ask yourself “Is it my body?”
If the answer was no, then surprise! You don’t have the right.
That. Is by far the BEST thing I have ever heard/seen anyone say about the right to get an abortion.
“To listen to poor people, to talk about poverty, is to admit that there is...”
– s.e. smith (via thirdw0rld)
“That’s what we memorialize today. That spirit that says, send me, no matter the...”
– Remarks by the President at Memorial Day Service, WhiteHouse.gov
Isn’t that “spirit” — the eagerness to go to war without any knowledge of the mission — kind of a big problem in the US pursuit of perpetual war? There are no good wars — all wars are tragedies, and imperialist wars of aggression...
“Hipsters are a driving force behind gentrification, driving out low income...”
– s.e. smith, Hipster Racism (via darkjez)
you mean there are people who still haven’t figured out that they’re just budding yuppies in disguise?
(via ayiman)
An amazing article. Read it.
(via mycultureisnotatrend)
Petition to remove Crossdressing as a mental... →
My life is not your life
karnythia:
So, I’m looking at some of the comments and emails that are flooding my inbox demanding to know all the inner workings of my life when I had the abortion that saved my life. And I know I don’t owe anyone an explanation, but there seems to be an ongoing assumption that I had tons of family support, disposable income in abundance, and that my two kids were self sufficient. At the time...
Help the Shawty Got Skillz Skillsharers Get to the...
genderbitch:
shawtygotskillz:
Hello Interwebs!
It’s about that time again for the best conference ever! Yes The Allied Media Conference will be happening June 23-26 in Detroit and we want to be there!
Who are we?
We are the Skillsharers of the 3rd Annual INCITE! Shawty Got Skillz workshop! We are cis women, trans* and genderqueer people of color making media that directly mingles our...
criptheatrequeer:
kiriamaya:
So! Starting on Tuesday, I will be full-time at school. I am excited and also extremely nervous. Over the past several days, I have been trying different looks, hiding facial hair shadow, and writing my name over and over and over and… :) I am thrilled, and I want everything on Tuesday to be as perfect as I can make it.
Alas, I still don’t quite know how I am...
“Well John, if they are not going to make a distinction between Muslims and...”
– Aasif Mandvi on The Daily Show
SNAP (via whatsajuthika)
Ice burn.
(via fussyfangs)
Will someone give this man an award? (via mendmyheart)
1000 points. (via mehreenkasana)
Did someone just get told?
(via maschalismos)
“Dude, you’re so edgy and politically incorrect. it’s totally ironic and...”
– I don’t know where I came across this, but it’s witty as fuck (via octagon-surgeon)
“Cracker von Patriarch” is my new name for everyone who is a douche.
(via kafuka)
It was on Tiger Beatdown, by snobographer.
(via torayot)
I LOVE THIS MORE THAN IS RATIONAL OR MAYBE EVEN HEALTHY. Cracker von...
“Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Tuesday that the internment of...”
– “Japanese Americans not surprised by internment lies”, FresnoBee.com
It’s not new information, but it’s certainly the most public acknowledgement by a top US official of the racist misinformation which the US government knowingly put before the Supreme Court to justify internment. And since the...
“Tell you what? You can have all that stuff back AND we’ll throw in White...”
– Mis Jenkins on Is being white racist? (via darkjez)
This is the most perfect of perfect things I have come upon! Bless this post!
(via liquornspice)
my faith in part of humanity has just been restored…
(via atapestryofdisasters)
This is both beautiful, true, and worth an instant reblog. BEST...
Help The Cheerleader →
lilahisthenight:
silentlydrawn:
mytongueisforked:
theriotmag:
Fund set up to help the cheerleader who was not only thrown off her high school’s squad for REFUSING TO CHEER FOR HER RAPIST, but saw the case against her school thrown out of court as “frivolous” and was ordered to pay her high school $45,000 in legal fees.
That’s right. She was raped and now she has to pay her school $45,000...
“The problem isn’t Craigslist, it’s the lack of protection and the...”
– Rachel West of the US PROStitutes Collective; on the Long Island murders. (TW for link: violence, murder)
Abortion Saved My Life
karnythia:
So, there’s this lawmaker out of Kansas who has lots to say about abortion. He’s currently best known for saying that women should plan ahead in case of rape and not expect their regular insurance to cover an abortion if they want one after being assaulted. And we could spend a lot of time going around about the flaws in his logic, or even hashing out when life begins, but really this...
“Of the 12 high profile people in question, 9 are mysteriously dead, 1 nearly...”
– Pretty fucking scary. Dead, Missing, Jailed – BP Whistle Blowers | Health Freedom Alliance (via uvmann:danielholter)(via vruz)
This is what the corporate elite think of non-violent change.(via dailyrenegade)
hello everyone. this is happening.
(via whatareyouwillingtolose)
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– a comment cited in The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating: How the Food Culture War Affects Black America (via idlesong)
Reblogging for SUCH TRUTHFUL TRUTHS. All of this, right here.
vikkiage: the white privilege of white... →
deafmuslimpunk:
a very, very good article worthwhile reading. Here’s my favourite part:
Another white privilege Tim Wise and other white anti-racists carry is the ability to emotionally express their views about racism without having that expression dismissed as “angry” or “too emotional”. When Wise speaks passionately and fervently about racism, his expression is understood as a sign of a...
So, to some up today's events: In fiction, White...
akitron:
palaceoffunk:
Racially ambiguous?
Default to white.
White parent?
Default to white.
Olive or otherwise tanned skin?
Default to white.
Anglo-saxon name?
Default to white.
Inclination of any European ancestry?
Default to white.
Character not described at all?
Default to white.
Unless otherwise explicitly stated and spelled out in neon colors with a full family geneology...
“Problem is, most black readers aren’t “new” readers. That was a misconception...”
– Don’t Put My Book in the African American Section. | N. K. Jemisin (via tokenblkgirl)
WILL NEVER NOT REBLOG N.K. JEMISIN. She is so very, very right about this. As an SF/F fan, reader, and writer it’s issues like this that piss me off so it does my geeky heart good to see her talking about...
the issue of 'herp derp'.
dailymurf:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
leavemeblurry:
okay, so this is probably going to lose me followers but whatever. no one here seems to be saying anything even though there’s a lot of people going NUH UH all over livejournal, so here it is.
herp derp is ableist. it really is, okay. i literally flinch every time i see someone using it, which is ALL THE TIME. it’s all over my dash, all...
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer →
mambo-chocobo:
For those wanting to read the lesbian, feminist retelling of Persephone and Hades. You can download it FOR FREE at her website and you can also donate what you think the book is worth.
I sampled a couple of chapters last night. GORGEOUS. I highly recommend it and am going to be reading it as soon as I get the chance. Just gorgeous.
I really hope people who can (and I...
“I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white...”
– Dan Savage (or: rather, why I will never like him as a queer black woman!)
Dan Savage is a racist d-bag.
(via cabell)
*blinkblink*
He’s such a douche.
(via therotund)
IT GETS WORSE with this guy
(via ghostofanidea)
Dan Savage acting like a douchecanoe? Must be a day that ends in...
The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating: How The Food... →
manifestfreedom:
When we make food an issue of choice, there is an underlying understanding that everyone, in fact, has that choice to make. There is an accepted belief, in conversations about choosing to eat healthily, that everyone stands between a produce section and a frozen TV dinner section and, invariably, chooses at their discretion. There’s an underlying acceptance in these...
Also: yes I know white people can have olive skin...
palaceoffunk:
White actors/roles? Are in abundance.
POC actors/roles, especially lead ones? Are not.
Representation of white folks? Everywhere you open your eyes.
Representation of POCs? Squint and you can find a handful as auxillary characters to a majority white leads.
Why is it that even when roles should have the possibility of POC actors (The Hunger Games, Akira, The Last Airbender,...
When in need of a minority, slap some bronzer and...
crossedwires:
squintyoureyes:
batarangs:
Yeah. Way to add insult to injury, Hollywood. I thought you just wanted a white Katniss, which—fine, okay, she’s racially ambiguous in the books. I can sort of accept that decision.
Turns out what you actually wanted was a brown-skinned Katniss played a white girl.
That’s cute, but next time, if you find yourself needing to put that much bronzer...
A Response to Slut Walk! →
I am so tired of how little consideration is given to which peoples and which bodies are able to be publicly visible during protests and which are not. There was no talk about how our bodies as women of colour are hyper-sexualized and how that links to gendered, racialized sexual violence! There was no talk about why men of colour (who let’s be honest are over represented in mainstream media...
