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NYTimes to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly →
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“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via cloud-scapes)
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From Patricia Turner’s NYTimes Op-ed Dangerous White Stereotypes:
…Forty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. was accompanied by tens of thousands of black domestic workers to the National Mall in Washington to demand economic justice, it is not all that difficult to render black fictional characters with appealing attributes and praiseworthy talents. What is more difficult to...
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A Conversation on Architecture
LAWLs brought to you by South is South:
One of the unintended consequences of evoking your observations on the sensory experiences of life on Twitter is that on occasion, the universe hollers back. Contrary to the manicured images one will find on Google Images, the Four Seasons in Cairo is one of the few buildings in the Arab world outside of the United Arab Emirates that incarnates the...
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THE SIDE EYE - AN OFFICE SURVIVAL GUIDE →
This post just made my life y’all.
…The “side eye” is the ultimate tool of clandestine rage against The Man. When used wisely, it can provide you a small sense of satisfaction in the face of slights, ridiculous questions, stereotypes, and unintentional racism. In special cases, it can provide a visible sign to those around you that you are angry without notifying the actual...
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A week before school:
“Maybe people aren’t that bad.. Maybe they’ve changed over the summer or maybe I was just overreacting..”
First day of school:
“I was wrong, I still hate all of you bitches.”
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“And yet does it not all come again to the fact that it is a man’s world? For if...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via redwagon)
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Washington State University fined over 82K for... →
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“Connecticut officials have begun screening cases after students wound up in...”
– In Texas schools, response to misbehavior is questioned - The Washington Post
Calling the police for kids running the hall.
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Right.
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go read this article. just. wow.
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i’ve seen it happen. lawd.
(via chelseaelsea)
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The Race™-Approved White Guys [Humor] |... →
kyssthis16:
Two Years later and it’s still funny! I can’t….
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“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only...”
– Banksy (via lckillah)
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“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their experiences organizing with the Black Panther Party (BPP), cited sexism and the exploitation of women (and their organizing labor) in the BPP as one of their primary reasons for either leaving the group (in the cases of Brown and Shakur) or refusing to ever formally join (in Davis’s case). Although women were often...
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Between a Racial Rock and a Gender Hardplace [Fall... →
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The politics of speaking to other black folks →
yup
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midwestmountainmama:
heard a panel w/community organizers in detroit. on the panel, organizers were talking about how the i-75 corridor in michigan effects the environemnt and life of people living around the corridor…and about the bridge to canada—and how the neighborhood around the bridge sees 10 THOUSAND industrial trucks go through their neighborhoods a *day*. and how the proposed new bridge...
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(via Shakesville)
Care of Cosmopolitan, the premiere woman-hating magazine for women: We Know Why You Didn’t Get Promoted. And, no, it is not because of any kind of systemic prejudice. It’s because your nails look like garbage, sister! Etc.
Obviously, being indifferent toward your company’s dress code/culture or bringing rank coffee breath into a meeting can be...
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“Not All Black Woman intellectuals are educated. Not all Black Women...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (via madonnawhorereject)
SPEAK .
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Today in Rape Culture
(via Shakesville)
[Trigger warning for rape culture; misogyny; exploitation.] Over at AlterNet, Sarah Seltzer has written a very fine article about some of the high-profile rape cases in which there has been a variety of hostility toward survivors, who find justice elusive. (Disclosure: I am quoted in the article.) The headline of the article is: “Cop Rapes Woman at Gunpoint, 11-Year-Old...
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
velvet-midnight:
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness,...
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on shutting down an argument by demanding action
ejiama:
biggest cop out EVER.
now, i HATE having conversations with people who completely miss the point, who distract from the meat of the discussion, who bring up irrelevant talking points, and who fail to think things through before they spew them. however, i may be even more annoyed by those who say, “i’ve heard all this before, so the real question is: what are you going to do?” than those...
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“There is nothing that annoys me more…and you can find this often on feminist...”
– What Tami Said: From the vault: When allies fail (Pt. 1)
Indeed.
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“He is taking advantage of loopholes to set up an organization that is not a...”
– (via NYT’s Stephen Colbert’s PAC is More Than a Gag)
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“What does virginity mean to a queer person, who may never have vaginal...”
– Virginity: Ditch It (via merde-sur-tout) 