February 2012
“Your job is not to educate others, (…) it is, first, to survive.”
– Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. (via razycrandomgirl)
Reblog if you want "have you ever" asks. →
Actually, any kind of asks would be nice. Especially if they’re not hate or spam.
Seriously, though. The box is open. Tell me anything. Ask me anything. Just let me know how you’re doing.
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dumbthingswhitepplsay:
ellierantsforever:
knitmeapony:
eshusplayground:
woollymindedlib:
ellierantsforever:
thealiensmadethisblog:
i think its somewhat cute that all cis gender people think that die cis scum applies to them
cisscum is pretty much interchangeable for cissexist
when trans people say die cis scum they are saying die cissexism/transgender oppression
but i guess if you...
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What happened to my dash?
[Image: The character Bill Adama played by Edward James Olmos, looking up and to the side with a displeased expression. The caption reads: “The frak am I looking at?”]
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pug butt: Five Important Things To Keep In Mind... →
paradiscacorbasi:
A lot of would be white allies freak out when people of color start using hostile language. This is nothing new.
But it occurs to me the why is something I’d never realized before.
I’ve said before People of Color are angry and they have every right to be angry.
But…
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“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
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rick santorum should give up his campaign for lent
Rick Santorum should GIVE UP for Lent.
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The Native Object - Or Do Not Reduce Us to False...
selchieproductions:
Hippiesque environmentalists love indigenous peoples; we’re naturally all a homogenous group of people who, despite the fact that we come from 72 different countries and we amount to more than 300 million people, all believe that the earth has a soul and then there’s the money that we cannot eat and, perhaps most important of all, Chief Seattle’s words; ‘the earth does not...
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I'm really sorry I have to say this.
quetzalcobra:
And I don’t mean that I’m sorry to say this or I feel bad about saying this, I mean that I’m sorry some of y’all are so fucking stupid that it comes to the point that I have to say this, but here it goes:
You are not a Black person (or any other POC) trapped in the body of a white person. Seriously. And you know what? Being an actual biracial woman who also happens to be visibly...
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Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
curiouslycool:
racismschool:
Are Dreadlocks really cultural appropriation?
YES
Here’s why:
Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis. Specifically it was started by holy men. These men renounced all of their worldly belongings (Including combs) and as a result their hair started (and remained) to turn into dreadlocks....
blackamazon:
karnythia:
gloria-swanson:
karnythia:
So when Amanda Marcotte says the exact same thing about Rihanna that WOC bloggers have been saying for months, & suddenly it’s a good idea not to judge her? Farreal, that’s when white feminists can hear that being a survivor is more complicated than doing what makes other people feel good? Mmm..okay. I see I need to spend less time...
liquornspice:
What’s the difference between a carbohydrate and a calorie? I failed biology of nutrition. Also I did not take a full dose of trusty focus pills today so these thoughts are just gonna come as they please! =D
A carbohydrate is just a type of organic compound, like a sugar. A calorie is a unit of measure, and generally in nutrition it’s taken to mean the energy required...
Anyone want to send things to my inbox?
I’d be nice to get stuff besides hate mail and spam. Just saying. Ask questions, make comments, anything you like.
ETA: Or just tell me what’s going on with you. I totally don’t mind you venting or sharing stuff in my inbox either. I like to connect to the people who follow me.
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karnythia:
7 worst international aid ideas
baddominicana:
note-a-bear:
obruniradio:
lysscglobal:
Maybe their hearts were in the right place. Maybe not. Either way, these are solid contenders for the title of “worst attempts at helping others since colonialism.”
1. One million t-shirts for Africa
2. TOMS Buy-One-Give-One
…dumping shoes in places where people might otherwise be...
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My problem isn't that Cleopatra was White.
dank-potion:
Evidence suggests she was Greek and that’s fine.
My main issue is that she’s become the focal point of Egyptian society.
That is a fallacy, because the Egyptian civilization was a powerful, autonomous, society well before Cleopatra and the Greeks came along.
Can we talk about Hatshepsut, Merneith, Nimaethap, Nitocris and the other badass female Pharaohs that were running shit...
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ladyatheist:
I have to say, I do find the way the media and public has been handling these attacks on reproductive health annoyingly cissexist. Is it really so hard to mention that trans* and nonbinary people are affected by these laws too? Why are we erasing the very existence of these people? Even among feminists this seems like the “cool” thing to do.
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Transvaginal Ultrasounds ARE ALREADY HAPPENING
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”
Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but I’m going to guess that Texas probably also has a much larger poor population and a higher percentage of...
“Always use the word ‘Sand’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Whispers’ in your title. Subtitles...”
– How to Write about the Middle East is such a brilliant, hilarious read that it passes off as a good, fine beating-of-the-ass for “opinion makers” like Thomas Friedman and Co. This part is even better:
In your text, treat the Middle East as if it were one country, and constantly refer to it as...
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“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via stay-in-skull)
no snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche
(via oogishkamaanisee)
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Do you know Yuri Kochiyama?
dreams-from-my-father:
ancestryinprogress:
I’m giving this woman flowers every single day that she is alive to let her know that cradling Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying is the most powerful thing she could have done for him in that moment, in that historical moment in our lives.
You see because she was still is an ardent social rights/social justice activist—on the behalf of Japanese...
jhameia:
Fund for Troy Davis’s family
thecurvature:
nigeriajones:
quebradiza:
numol
[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis, the matriarch of the...
White people: I wear Native American war bonnets and face paint because I have a deep appreciation of Native American culture.
Native Americans: Hey, could you stop doing that? It's harmful to us.
White people: Nah, I respect your culture too much to listen to what you have to say about it.
how much commerce on the internet is created by...
searchingforknowledge:
BOOM
why is it, do you think, that there is such a...
baddominicana:
damn. you are killing me today.
BOOM.
food production=life and where they fucking get us.
and how they keep their fucking boots on our necks.
(the man would be done if we grew and ate our own food and gave em a big fuck you, in a nutshell)
why do so many cases of elderly people being...
Something I've notice since being in college....
jhameia:
ardhra:
lavienoire:
And you know what? Not even a big discovery. They are the typical people affected by the Dunning–Kruger effect. So used to having their asses kissed.
Story of my life.
Mmhmmm. And university. And grad school.
who controls land resources in the US? who holds...
do women and girls need food, housing, health...
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“This is not addressed primarily to white people. It does not put you down in...”
– Nina Simone before performing “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” (via dionthesocialist)
PREACH Queen Nina!
(via sourcedumal)
The High Priestess, ladies and gentlemen.
(via ANegroKing)
(I will *always* reblog Nina. Always.)
In honor of Nina Simone’s birthday, In the...
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ethiopienne:
people who are allowed to decide how rihanna should respond to abuse:
rihanna
people who are not allowed to decide how rihanna should respond to abuse:
everyone else
In case the issue was too complicated for you to wrap your mind around, ethiopienne has laid it out very neatly. With bullet points. I suggest printing this out and tacking it up somewhere so you can see it...
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“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via janejacqueline)
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liquornspice:
Fund for Troy Davis’s family
jhameia:
thecurvature:
nigeriajones:
quebradiza:
numol
[via Dread Times (link to post)]
AFAICT the new deadline is the 28th [of February]. they’re only at 69% of their goal as of now, please pass this around and donate if possible.
The Davis family has had to bury three warriors for justice in the past seven months. Virginia Davis,...
karnythia:
That KKK pic made me think about segregation, redlining, & gentrification. I’ve seen more white hipsters whining on Tumblr about angry fliers like it was the worst thing ever to be told eve indirectly that they weren’t welcome in POC neighborhoods. Never mind the part where they come in & immediately start trying to dismantle the culture of those neighborhoods, or the part...
Anonymous asked: Fucking kill yourself, cunt.