October 2011
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on fat, trans, and the pitfalls of comparing... →
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To Repeat: Being Anti-Racist isn't based on how...
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adailyriot:
if a person of colour is telling you that you’re being fucked up and racist/exhibiting white supremacy you probably are.
COMMENTARY. (I need to talk to some of my friends about this kind of thing.)
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“College debt shows up a lot in these stories, actually. It’s more insistently...”
– “Who are the 99 percent?,” Ezra Klein, The Washington Post (via hold-a-wolfs-ears)
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so-treu:
“And let’s talk about the real effects that the model minority myth has on the mental health of Asian Americans — particularly Asian American women. We have the highest rates of depression, highest rates of suicide, because of this viciously internalized and externalized, push to succeed. Mental health professionals, schools, and (yes!) our own families fail to see us when we are in...
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Women's Studies/Feminism recommended reading list
fromonesurvivortoanother:
Rebloggable version, since someone asked!
Some essays that I could find links to:
Peggy McIntosh - Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, and Interactive Phases of Curricular Revision Audre Lorde - The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, and The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action Adrienne Rich - Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian...
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[Womanist Musings] White Feminists and Me: a Fable...
This piece is so on point I just had to post the whole thing
(via Womanist Musings)
I’m a 23 year old Sinhalese woman in Minnesota by way of Dubai by way of Sri Lanka. I am a Womanist, and part of my womanism is figuring out how to be in solidarity with my transnational sisters worldwide. I’m a daughter, a sister, a partner and a writer. I’m a brown girl who knows Shakespeare...
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An Open Letter To Activists Concerning Racism In The Anti-War Movement
moononwaters:
“Addressing White Supremacy in the Peace and Justice Movement A persistent dynamic of white supremacy/racism and white privilege within many organizations, and the resultant perpetuation of racist practices, takes various forms: resistance by predominantly white organizations to sharing leadership with-much...
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
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liquornspice:
“It was a widely misinterpreted movie, I think…. People tend to say, “Why didn’t she end up with him? He was so nice!” But I think that he was really quite guilty of projecting a fantasy onto this girl that she didn’t necessarily deserve, and that, honestly, he was pretty wrapped up in his own selfish point of view… We’ve all been guilty of it. I’m sure I’ve done the same. And we...
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so important! must read
darkjez:
“[Trigger warning for partner consent issues, rape] At first, I didn’t know what she meant. She spoke so softly I had to lean across the table to hear her. “I don’t want to hurt your feelings,” she said, “but sometimes I really don’t want to have sex. Sometimes I do, but not as often as you want it. And sometimes I want to tell you ‘no,’ but I can’t bring myself...
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A Sistah is weary…
This is exactly what I’m feeling right now. As usual, AngryBlackBitch’s post is too good to not post in its entirety.
A sistah is weary…
…of the assumption that people of color possess unlimited quantities of understanding and forgiveness.I’m weary of the never ending circle of over the top insult followed by defensiveness followed by frustration with folk for being offended by...
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