July 2011
“Someone firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, late Tuesday...”
– Planned Parenthood firebombed, right wing silent - (via becauseiamawoman)
chunkymilk asked: I'm in Massachusetts and on a constant search for the best possible Indian food I can find, so I must ask you: what was the name of that restaurant in Northampton?! My tikka-loving self must know!
“I think marriage in general is not a healthy institution in our society. If...”
– bell hooks (via queeraspie)
jhameia asked: Best. Food. Ever. ?
endorphinique asked: Who was your childhood hero and why?
Message me 1 thing you want to know about me.
victree-kel:
glitterfemme:
vanillaandlavender:
bigassfemme:
adthekidd:
hurry the fuck up!
I’m bored
do eet :)
http://glitterfemme.tumblr.com/ask
http://victree-kel.tumblr.com/ask
Come on, y’all: FEED THE ASK BOX. I know there must be at least one thing you’re curious about or want to know or want to address.
I’m always surprised that I don’t get many...
hey @IsraelinUSA when will the Israel army explain...
deafmuslimpunk:
numol:
deafmuslimpunk:
Tweet @IsraelinUSA or call the Israel Embassy +1-202-364-5500 and demand an answer why the IDF attacked a cultural institution on Palestinian soil in the middle of night, and demand that Adnan and Bilal (the 2 Palestinians who were arrested) be LET GO. MORE INFO HERE.
re-reblogging. please do this and/or pass this around if you can. thank you.
I...
progressivelyminded:
“I’m sorry you got offended” is not an apology I will ever take seriously.
Immigration Court Decision Times Growing Longer in...
queerdesi:
During the first six months of FY 2011, decision times continued to climb in cases disposed of by the Immigration Courts, according to timely government enforcement data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). The increasingly long average wait reached 302 days — up 7.5 percent in the last six months, and almost 30 percent higher than the average...
moniquill:
daisiespastapizza:
chandeluresinitaly:
uwu:
you guys
this is me
gpoy
(Holy fuck this one girl I know really thinks this though.)
It took me a little while to figure out why this post bothered me so much.
But then I thought back to the crisis intervention training I get at work.
This post pathologizes attention-seeking behavior.
Attention-seeking behavior is not...
I was fired from my job today for being...
fuckyeahftms:
Hey fellas. Usually when I post here I’m in a relatively good mood, but today was rough.
It was the 2nd day of a new job, I informed management in beginning of Day 1 of my preferred name and pronouns and that I’m trans. It went really well and my supervisor was quite supportive.
Apparently my supervisor and coworkers were fine with it, but the HR representative, who I never...
So I've come to a conclusion.
iweareggplantwithpride:
DC has problems with:
women
LGBT community
healthy relationships
passing the mantle for major characters
women passing the costume
aging
successful women
women in their 30s
women defined by more than one trait
common sense
marriage
popular characters
new fans
happiness
my money
“According to a note that Peltier had written at the time, he had been preparing...”
– Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement (*WARNING* — description of torture/further prisoner abuse at link)
please do these things and/or pass them around if you can:
Call to Action: Contact the Department of Justice
August 6 and 7: Vigil and Rally for...
Abortion Rights in Peril in North Carolina
stfuconservatives:
Just got an e-mail from Planned Parenthood:
BREAKING: NC House of Representatives Votes to Override the Governor’s Veto of HB 854 (72 - 47).
Despite the hard work of thousands of pro-choice advocates urging legislators in the NC House of Representatives to oppose this bill, today the House voted 72 - 47 to override the governor’s veto of HB 854. If the NC Senate also...
Right, apparently people STILL don't fucking get...
cydne-the-trekupine:
If I choose to make porn (which I am choosing to do, incidentally), or if I choose to be an escort (which I did, once upon a time), I am not ‘selling myself’. I am not for sale. My body, my mind, my personality… these things are not for sale. What is for sale, is the option to look at my body, or interact with it. If I fuck somebody, or somebody takes a naked picture of me,...
Tor.com » Bartitsu: More Fashionable than... →
wildunicornherd:
Ay-leen the Peacemaker reports back from a seminar on bartitsu, an obscure Victorian English form of martial arts that combined various fighting styles from boxing to jujitsu, and which is coming back into nerd vogue thanks to Sherlock and steampunk:
Prof. Donnelly started off by explaining how bartitsu was based on learning how to fight with whatever one had on-hand. During...
“When you complain about political correctness, we hear “Man, if only we were...”
– N.K. Jemisin (via ribbonspooncat)
“I know not everyone who says, “Stop being so sensitive” comes from a place of...”
– (via letsgetoutofthiscountry)
I am so tired of hearing people say that people need to stop being sensitive and that everything is offensive to somebody. Yeah, ‘cause not oppressing other people totally sucks; what was I thinking telling you that that word offends me?
(via blushandbloom)
Roranicus and a Half
[Image: Two panels of a comic, a take off from Hyperbole and Half, of two very simply drawn, MS paint-esque figures. The top one is of Rory as a Roman soldier, against a yellow explosion background, raising his sword with a fierce, enthusiastic expression with the hand written words above: “Survive all the things!” Beneath is a portrait of Rory in civilian clothes with a forlorn,...
karnythia:
madamethursday:
esmeweatherwax:
gkayy:
[Image description: A WOC is smiling at the camera with what looks like an oar in her hands. There is water behind her a hill which seems to covered in greenery]
ekkentros:
thefemcritique:
feminismisforreal:
High in the mountains of southwest China live the members of the Mosuo Tribe, widely-thought to be the last matriarchal society...
“…the perpetrator was a “blond, blue-eyed Norwegian” with “political traits...”
– Norway, Islam and the threat of the West (via janedoe225)
hey @nytimes when will u apologize 2 Muslims for...
deafmuslimpunk:
^ my tweet.
If you have a twitter, you should go tweet @NYTimes and demand they apologize to Muslims everywhere on earth for spreading lies about the terrorist attacks in Norway. SHAME ON THEM FOR SHODDY JOURNALISM, SHAME ON THEM FOR FUELING THE ISLAMOPHOBIA MACHINE!
Let’s get on this. I think the NYTimes definitely needs to apologize for their part in contributing to...
Lakota Language Teaching Goes High Tech →
sarahlee310:
If you go to the website -LiveandTell.com you’ll see a bunch of photos—just like a lot of other websites but if you click to open one of the photos - like the one of a starry nighttime sky—you’ll hear this.
wicahpih’a - when the sky is filled with stars
You can also click on individual star and hear — wica´hpi (wicha´h-pi) - star
[…]
The Live and Tell website Arobba set up...
DeafMuslimPunk: How the New York Times have abused... →
deafmuslimpunk:
Excellent, comprehensive essay by Glenn Greenwald. Let me say that I am very pleased I’m not the only one who is utterly angry and disgusted by the New York Times’ slow response in correcting their report on the Oslo blasts and shooting.
The Omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of…
I really like how white Christians are now jumping...
Norwegian Red Cross →
meloukhia:
For those who, like me, are thinking of the people of Norway tonight. The Red Cross is on the ground providing assistance.
For all my N. American people feeling the brunt of...
IF PORK'S COWBOYS AND INDIANS PHOTOSHOOT PISSED...
fatpeopleofcolor:
garconniere:
reblogs, tumblr posts, catty twitter insults only do so much. let PORK magazine know what you think:
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We have gotten several messages to boycott the magazine as well. I will say that as individuals, you...
The Real Reason Big Macs Are Cheaper Than More... →
As with most issues in this new Gilded Age, the tale of the American diet is a story of the worst form of corporatism — the kind whereby the government uses public monies to protect private profit.
In this chapter of that larger tragicomedy, lawmakers whose campaigns are underwritten by agribusinesses have used billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize those agribusinesses’ specific commodities...
