January 2012
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“Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some...”
– http://www.whattamisaid.com/2010/02/conservatives-political-correctness-and.html
What Tami Said
(via witchsistah)
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“There are many reasons that jokes can be considered offensive, but one of the...”
– http://zaewen.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/its-just-a-joke/ (via pigblog)
December 2011
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An Open Letter to Anti-Resolvers →
gomboscholar:
Dear New Year’s Cynics,
I pray that all is well with you. However, judging from your incessant lambasting of others’ need to make New Year’s resolutions, I see that you’re quite disturbed by the ritual. Yes, we all know that change doesn’t happen overnight, and using the beginning of a new year seems arbitrary to kick old habits, but it’s a start. Many of us use December 31st as...
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What relevance does the anti-Black nature of the... →
james-bliss:
What relevance does the anti-Black nature of the state have for immigrant detention, deportation, illegality, and criminalization? Whereas I could give numerous examples, there is one major point I want to address here: immigrant rights advocates need to re-examine their beliefs about Black citizenship.
Under the racial state, there is no such thing as Black citizenship. ...
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“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (via leritas)
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Derail of the Day-"It only has power if you give... →
lebanesepoppyseed:
When someone uses a slur and a person from the marginalized group that the slur disparages calls that shit out, there are is a common reaction that piss me the fuck off and is downright abusive in how it twists why the call out is happening and how it should go down.
“Well, it’s up to you get offended or not”
“It only has power if you give it power”.
“You can’t let every...
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If you are Black Female, Black Queer, Black...
notyourkinddear:
freebreezeandyoungbloods:
http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/ShotgunSeamstress
It’s called Shotgun Seamstress. It’s made by a Nigerian American, Black Punk, Black Feminist, Black Queer, All Around down Sista. Reblog this and let people know what’s up.
Oh, I have looked at that zine and it’s pretty freaking awesome!
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“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix...”
– bell hooks - all about love, 2000 [*M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Travled, 1978] (via jenniferbundock)
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COLOUR-BLIND RACISM: The Four Frames →
darkjez:
ABAGOND—
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asked samples of White Americans, most of them born between 1940 and 1980, questions about race issues. He noticed that at least half of them used each of the following four frames:
abstract liberalism – the key word here is “abstract”. Unlike Jim Crow racists, most whites now agree that all Americans, regardless of race, should have equal rights and...
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on spelling yr women's with y's (womyn) →
All of this.
Also, I should start signing off with “from love and with anger” more often. so perfect.
miswritten:
or, a-qwoc-checkin-that-turned-into-twitter-vomit-that-turned-into-a-tumblr-post.
written for all the women of color i love and hold dear to my heart. written for myself too. and in hopes that thing can change. in hopes of being heard. from love and with anger.
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via girlinthepurpleshirt)
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“The thing is, I’m not looking for people to mindlessly force themselves to call...”
– Dean Spade on pronouns in “once more… with feeling.” (via accumulatedephemera)
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“Hate crime laws are an even more direct example of the limitations of the...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law
This book is amazing. I’m only half-way through but it is gutting me, over and over again. If you have about $20 to spare (my book was $16), please get it because it approaches movements of...
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“If white America would come face-to-face with white poverty, it would realize...”
– Poor White Kids: Are They Invisible? (via robot-heart-politics)
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
READ THIS. seriously, it’s great.
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood....
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“You come to the United States and the United States begins immediately,...”
– Junot Diaz (via thedivanna)
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“The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as...”
– Deep Green Resistance (via cultureofresistance)
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Um actually I don't "prefer" my pronouns, I demand...
Worddd. Why do we even say “Preferred” Gender Pronouns? Does anyone know the history of that phrase?
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“Basically, recognizing one’s privilege is an act that is naturally a threat to...”
– Liquor&Spice: Self-esteem and activism in the US
Emphasis added. Go read the whole thing.
(via ronronnement)
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“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is...”
– bell hooks (via cuntflavor)
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stfuhypocrisy:
“The argument leaves Black women facing the accusation that they are either fools or murderers—and either way complicit in what Mark Crutcher says is Planned Parenthood’s sinister plan for “convincing the target group to commit mass suicide.” The accusation cuts to the heart of an intersection of sexism and racism for Black women, who have historically been pressed to choose...
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“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic (via guerrillamamamedicine)
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“-estyou know what? i’m gonna say it.
every time someone talks to me about how i...”
– the baddest bitch of her age.:
(via liquornspice)
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“The worst thing to call somebody is “crazy”. It’s dismissive. I don’t understand...”
– Dave Chappelle (via mustardhat)
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Cops Losing their Jobs for Criticizing the Drug... →
jonathan-cunningham:
“I was terminated not because my service was inadequate, but because I hold certain opinions that are shared by millions of my fellow Americans,” [former border patrol agent Bryan] Gonzalez is quoted as saying in an ACLU press release. “I am no less patriotic or dedicated to excellence in my work because I respectfully disagree with some of our current border enforcement...
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well Demi fixed that right up.
brandnewjones:
yummyrandomness:
lov4t0:
GET IT DEMI!!!!! Hold motherfuckers accountable!!!!!
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“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana
“but u guise reverse racism is real!!!1!!one!! im realy prejusidse against bcus im white every1 hatez me”
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THANK YOU!!!
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But - but what about the White people?
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