February 2012
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
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January 2012
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Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse... →
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“It will never be possible for gay people to assimilate, because civilization -...”
– Michael Bronski in The Pleasure Principle “The World Turned Upside Down” p.249
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“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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Cultural appropriation
feminoonas:
1) What is Cultural appropriation?
Cultural appropriation is the taking on elements of other cultures and removing these elements from their original cultural context and ending up assigning different meanings and significance to them… that is to say you twist a cultural aspect that does not belong to you into your own.
It is wrong because it:
Invalidates: the culture/society/the...
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white feminism & black men
daniellemertina:
That’s another annoying thing about white feminism: how they treat black men. There’s a difference from understanding, that like white men, black men have the tendency to be sexist and misogynist AND using their manhood as an excuse to racially demonize them … mostly by way of the black male rapist myth and citing their greater inclination to violence, and etc. They also like to...
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“The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial...”
– bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)
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white women’s tears →
leonineantiheroine:
Relevant to Australia and also online spaces, and thanks abagond!!! xx
“White women’s tears is one of the main ways White American women have of derailing any talk of racism, particularly their own racism. It is part of a more general pattern of white people making their feelings matter more than the truth – something you see too in the tone argument, for example.
White...
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“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
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“…No group in the world has had more money spent on it to have its genetics...”
– Rediscovering Black History. Review of The Black Book. New York Times Magazine (11 August 1974): 14+ Reprinted by the permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright 1974 by Toni Morrison.
from What Moves at the Margin; Selected Non-Fiction Edited and with an Introduction by...
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Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth by... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
i am really surprised by folks who are claiming that we need to be careful for advocating for revolution in egypt because people will die. have died. do die. in revolutions.
i have heard this a few times in the past month, and it is brought up, like, no one has ever considered the possibility that people die during large scale revolutions…
as if people werent dying...
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“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel...”
– Sylvia Plath (via annorexorcist)
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Sometimes I want to just cry.
ALL OF THIS.
seloftheearth:
ethiopienne:
talldarkbishoujo:
blackamazon:
grrspit:
Hearing about the experiences of other black people, knowing I’m not alone or “crazy” (scarequotes on purpose) or overreacting or seeing patterns that aren’t there or over-analyzing or any of the things I’m routinely accused of doing.
Thank you.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS MY POINT.
It’s why when people go it’s...
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“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via stay-in-skull)
I’m reblogging this quote of myself because I’m tickled that I am able to find so many random references to my blog I never saw before through googling it. Haha
(via feministdisney)
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“Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it,...”
– Ted Alexandro (via amorepeacefulvendetta)
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How The Glock Became America's Weapon Of Choice -... →
In his book Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, Paul Barrett traces how the sleek, high-capacity Austrian weapon found its way into Hollywood films and rap lyrics, not to mention two-thirds of all U.S. police departments.
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“But there’s a deeper, even more critical element here , because it’s the same...”
– James McBride, screenwriter of Red Hook Summer and Miracle @ St. Anna on the politics of being a Black Story teller. #peaceto @afrolicious. #ownMYownShit.
#ProfessionalBlackStoryteller/Historian…I add historians because storytellers are historians…at least that’s what the feminists I rock with...
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Watch“Shit Liz Lemon Says” #30Rock
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“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of...”
– Bell Hooks (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
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“Announcing her presence with a major gesture with the closure of ex-gay torture...”
– Ecuador President appoints lesbian to cabinet | Washington Blade
From the article:
According to LGBT Latino news blog, Blabbeando, Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa announced Wednesday the appointment of Carina Vance Mafla as the replacement of outgoing Health Minister, who resigned earlier this...
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(trigger warning for rape and abuse) Ethiopian... →
A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday.
The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them, said Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo, speaking by telephone from the provincial capital of Bita Genet,...
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This is how it goes.
ethiopienne:
dank-potion:
Unless you are able to do all of the following:
retrieve the lost cultures, actual names and familial ties of the descendants of slaves.
pay for tickets and all accommodations to the specific regions in Africa of which slave descendants belong after finding out said cultures, names and familial ties.
destroy the disproportionate flow of money caused by slavery and...
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“Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense...”
– Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)
ALWAYS REBLOG.
(via ndnsurgency)
*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.
(via so-treu)
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Just an FYI for erryone
mediumtrip:
> Things you shouldn’t compare to the Holocaust: things that aren’t the Holocaust.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to rape: things that aren’t rape.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to slavery: things that aren’t slavery.
> Things you shouldn’t compare to homophobia or transphobia: things that aren’t homophobia or transphobia.
It’s that simple.
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