February 2012
The White Factor
zorascreation:
Yesterday I was out in Manhattan with my bestie and she told me about The White Factor.
It’s a term of expression used whenever you see or experience something intrinsically racist from a White person, or you see a White person doing something ridiculously ridiculous that falls in line with common stereotypes about Whites that White American pop culture has brought upon itself...
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on a "trying to be more productive" note--
guerrillamamamedicine:
milkeemountainmama:
had an interesting thought—there’s always SO much “feminine” energy wrapped up in alternative healing methods (like: reiki, acupuncture, etc). i don’t know how that energy *got* there—like, if the original manifestations of the reiki conciously presented itself in a feminine power—or if it became heavily “femininized” within the hippy mother earth...
Just a beaver with an agenda: Call for submissions... →
whencylonsdream:
autumn-and-eve:
If you don’t already know, Raven and I are in the process of coming up with a zine/pamphlet-type situation all about transmisogyny. Since transmisogyny intersects a lot with race in a way we haven’t experienced, we’d really like to include trans women of color’s views on…
Signal boosting.
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pambana:
and i’m tired of how it is conveniently ignored that when the europeans came to the continents of now-called latin america, africa, asia, polynesia, wherever there were Black and Brown folk, they cried out that our ways of living, building, eating, dancing, were primitive, backwards and to continue to live in those traditional ways meant punishment, even by death. large family homes...
Eviction Notice - Signal Boosting a Need for Help
maybethings:
greytaliesin:
fanaticality:
So, things have become incredibly bad and unstable for my best friend, who you can find at both MiHawkes and FYeahVarric.
Losing a job does, of course, get you to those places, and work is hard to find to keep money coming in to pay bills, but more importantly, have a place to even live. This is what’s happening with her—she and her mother have been...
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“If you can take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes...”
– Why we should care about libraries (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)
quixotess asked: 21:Whats your least favorite movie? & 97:Do you want kids?
jiggit asked: For the questions meme: 14 (Do you ever dance even if theres no music playing?), 36 (What is your usual bedtime?), 39 (What is your Chinese astrological sign?)
Questions not usually asked:
nezua:
1:Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed? 2:Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel? 3:Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out? 4:Have you ever stolen a street sign before? 5:Do you like to use post-it notes? 6:Do you cut out coupons but then never use them? 7:Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of a bees? 8:Do you have...
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“Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at...”
– carrie fisher, wishful drinking. oh god george lucas what are you even. also did you know mark hamill was so intent on making his garbage disposal strangulation look realistic that he burst a bood vessel in his eye? now you do. (via isabelthespy)
loooool george lucas, you ass.
(via deltumbles)
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Half million could lose Internet access in coming... →
Imagine trying to get online and finding out you’ve been cut off from the Internet.
It’s expected to happen to millions of unsuspecting computer users because of something referred to as the Internet kill switch.
It all started with six guys in, of all places, Estonia in Europe, who infected more than 4 million computers worldwide, half a million in the United States.
The DNSChanger Trojan...
cornerof5thandvermouth:
Police arrest and stripsearch innocent man after his child doodles a gun
anticapitalist:
Sansone, 26, is a father of three and Kitchener, Ont., resident. As a younger man, he admits getting into trouble with the law, but claims to have lived clean for years. He’s now a certified personal support worker, husband and father of three. He was even reportedly offered a job...
on physically punishing your children
bossymarmalade:
sanaa-tamir:
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in the context of...
(Please REBLOG) Why POC need Science-Fiction and...
butcharri:
Please, Please REBLOG this!!!!
You know one thing that I’ve found in being a creative and a person of color is that attempting to get POC to collaborate on something that involves people of color outside of Hip-Hop culture is virtually impossible without a shit load of money…which I do not have. If it’s hard for me than that means it’s hard for a lot of creatives and I’ve already...
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Why is this so fucking difficult to understand?
princessrols:
What the fucking fuck.
Asian-Americans live with the long-term legacy of the racism that Bruce Lee faced, and maybe it’s not as overt as fucking blackface but that doesn’t mean Asians just silently put up with that shit. I get the whole Model Minority thing but fuckers at home in Asia should not be using it to justify their own anti-black racism.
Cultural Appropriation: Dreadlocks
ardhra:
racismschool:
ardhra:
“Dreadlocks originated first with Jamaican Rastafarians and then in Indian Sages and Yogis.”
This is why white people should stop talking. Three seconds on Google, and you’re a fucking expert.
EDIT: Okay, I think I previously saw that racismschool is white on their blog, and didn’t see the FAQ where they explain their b/g. So, my apologies. That opening...
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home →
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve around...
Moniquilliloquies.: Picture of abortion procedure... →
moniquill:
[TW: talk of miscarriage in the context of abortion]
mangosupasonic:
keepitcovered:
abdulio:
Reblog if your against ABORTION
More than likely if you’re at 23 weeks, you WILL not be getting an abortion.
If you’re terminating a pregnancy at 23 weeks, it’s probably because…
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hogwartsandthetardis:
jhameia:
jiggit:
hogwartsandthetardis:
Wow. I’m an atheist and almost never the first person to come to the defense of religion, but if you honestly think people of a Christian faith have not been systematically oppressed than you are sadly misinformed. There’s a Newsweek cover story called “The War on Christians” written by an Atheist about the persecution Christians...
I love you Whedon, and Imma let you finish, but...
jiggit:
hogwartsandthetardis:
Wow. I’m an atheist and almost never the first person to come to the defense of religion, but if you honestly think people of a Christian faith have not been systematically oppressed than you are sadly misinformed. There’s a Newsweek cover story called “The War on Christians” written by an Atheist about the persecution Christians face in the Muslim world. To think...
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
isabelthespy:
yesysabella:
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your property.
You have the right to refuse random police searches anywhere...
To people who think they are "transethnic":
readnfight:
mry:
golden-zephyr:
atoraya:
readnfight:
If you exist outside of the internet, please come take a stroll through my hood and tell people about it. Double dog dare ya.
The latest in Shit You Can Get Away With When All Your Friends Are White.
Transethnic is a term I learned yesterday. I was completely confused and not just a little horrified. Yes take a little a walk...
TW: RAPE.
blackamazon:
karnythia:
baddominicana:
and this burns me up especially, coz this is something i rarely talk about,
but the guy i was dating, who raped me, (he was 23, i was 16) got me drunk first. :/
and even in the haze i still said no at least a hundred times.
and even then it was still a game to him, as far he was concerned, my body was never my own? men reserve the right to...
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Just Smith.: On 'Teaching Men' →
lavienoire:
masteradept:
fatandgeeky:
77825225672443:
hupsoonheng:
[TW for rape]
just-smith:
captainjackjohnson:
just-smith:
Let’s teach men not to rape.
We should teach men that no means no.
Excuse me?
I can’t speak for all men, but I have morals. From experience, I would also hazard a guess that most men do. Unless you’re suggesting that men are naturally evil, then maybe my...
I love you Whedon, and Imma let you finish, but...
jiggit:
hogwartsandthetardis:
jiggit:
hogwartsandthetardis:
jiggit:
hogwartsandthetardis:
fabricatidiempvnc:
hogwartsandthetardis:
Lady Sybil, Angua, Cheery, Sally, Lady Dearheart, Granny Weatherwax…
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Adding to this: Tiffany Aching, Nanny Ogg, Magrat (moreso in later books), Susan Sto Helit, Agnes Nitt…
I can’t believe I...
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Request for Submissions for a French/Arabic guide...
lavienoire:
poemsofthedead:
queermuslims:
Hi! I’m a Moroccan lesbian studying in the US, currently working on a project you might find interesting : a French/Arabic guide to coming out for Moroccan babyqueers. I was wondering if you would be interested in contributing something/might perhaps be willing to ask your followers if they’d be willing to contribute ? The idea is that...
Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to...
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and comedy.
Last night, I was...
“So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)
“I am sure there are liberal American women in belly dancing who are critical of...”
– Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire, Sunaina Maira
(via mllanders)
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