March 2012
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February 2012
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“The notion of colorblindness came to us from that famous ” I Have A Dream”...”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via lati-negros)
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Hunger Strike at U. of Virginia Reaches Day 10 →
Twenty students at the University of Virginia are starving, but not only because they haven’t eaten in 10 days.
They’re starved for justice from an administration they say has failed to provide a living wage for its employees, and so they began a hunger strike on February 18. Their demands: Pay UVA workers more–at least $13 per hour–and ensure safe working conditions. According to UVA’s...
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“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)
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“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
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Yo, Is This Racist? Oscar Analysis: How Many... →
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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...
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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...
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“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
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History, not just heritage →
Should the University reassess its approach to Black History Month?
In which Prof. Okihiro goes in
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What America Hasn’t Learned 70 Years After... →
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“A group of folks, my folks included, formed the American Indian Leadership...”
– Gerald Clifford, The Search for Indian, except taken from Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education
adailyriot:
It’s important to remember that what terms Native people choose to use is a personal choice. There are Natives out there whom do not like the term...
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“I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report...”
– Audre Lorde, from A Burst of Light (via theredtree) (via wocsurvivalkit)
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”Insurgent movements are not the product of ‘hard times’; they are the product of insurgent cultures…. Effective insurgent cultures offer people hope. And from this starting point, political movements are possible - especially if times are hard.”
—Lawrence Goodwyn
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“See the really hardcore people will tell you life begins at fertilization....”
– George Carlin (via bulletinaweave)
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Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity... →
This paper examines six different modes for declaring whiteness used within academic writing, public culture and government policy, arguing that such declarations are non-performative: they do not do what they say. The paper offers a general critique of the mode of declaration, in which ‘admissions’ of ‘bad practice’ are taken up as signs of ‘good practice’,...
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“This is a pretty common perception of White Identity that should definitely be...”
– foxtalbotnegatives (via sapphrikah)
WELP!
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RIGHT!!
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“It's Not my Birthday, & I Don't Want Cake”: On... →
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Things I learned from TV.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
All Asians look like John Cho.
Asians know everything. Seriously, everything. And they can probably fly in secret and they just don’t tell us.
If an Asian person tells you to do something, for the love of god, do it. NEVER cross them.
Black people are all hard. Every one. They’re hard as fuck. You can’t break them with a hammer.
Despite being really hard, black people...
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“Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...”
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe)
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karnythia:
“(TRIGGER WARNING) The simple fact: sexual-violence perpetrators and their victims are usually of the same race. So, since I’m talking about Black people in this case, then what I’m saying is those Black people who commit sexual violence usually create victims who are Black, too. There. I said it. And statistics back this: —According to a 2000 report, in 93% of sexual assaults, the...
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Standing While Brown: A White Lady Tried To Get Me... →
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“…MJ: What surprised you about the experiment?
MA: Oh, the worst thing was what we learned about economies in black neighborhoods. We assumed, just like other little ethnic enclaves like Little Italy or Greek Town or Chinatown, that for predominantly black neighborhoods all the black businesses there would be owned by the local people. But easily over 90 percent of the businesses on...
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Writers Explore What It Means To Be 'Black Cool' -... →
…In a new collection of essays, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, writers explore the definition of coolness within African-American culture. Writer Rebecca Walker edited the book and compiled a series of essays aimed to build a “periodic table of black cool, element by element.”
She tells NPR’s Neal Conan: “I really wanted to name ‘black...
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“The Porto Ricans (sic) are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish...”
– Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads
This is an actual quote from a personal letter.
Dr. Rhodes deliberately injected cancer cells into unknowing patients, which resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people. For his achievements Dr. Rhoads was featured on the cover of Time Magazine June 27, 1949.
(via...
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karnythia:
It’s funny in a very unfunny way how little consideration is given to life after an abusive relationship for the survivor. Lots of discourse on treatment for the abuser, and lots of debate about what survivors should have done, could have done, or whatever. But no one really talks about what it means to move on, or how survivors have to navigate abuse culture which includes societal...
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I think I’m going to stay off the internet for a bit. This Chris Brown & Rihanna stuff is painful and exhausting.
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Women of Color--Let's take back our tags!
tierracita:
Let’s pick a day (arbitrarily going to say Wednesday, February 22nd) and take back our tags! Meaning post yourself being yourself, without any exotifying pretense.
I got really upset/annoyed/raging when I opened the Latina tag for the 10th time only to find exotified images of naked Latinas posted by white men.
Now nudity is great, so is sexuality, but when nudity and sexuality as...
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“I don’t think it’s a virtue or an accomplishment to hide or deny your pain so...”
– #186: The lie of “strength.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via notemily)
Which is why “strong black woman” has never been a goddamn compliment. It is code for “Thank you for being a mule.”
(via crankyskirt)
oh, how this brings me back to the last time someone told me I was “really strong” when I...
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lettherebecramp:
I’ve noticed that when you call a misogynist out on their sexism, they have a tendency to:
call you a “stupid bitch”
call you fat/ugly/otherwise attack your body
accuse you of being a lesbian (as if that’s supposed to be insulting)/slut/otherwise attack your sexuality
claim that the fact that you are fat/ugly/a lesbian/a slut is the only reason you’re a feminist
say “men...
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About misogyny in politics
redlightpolitics:
Back in June when I wrote about a certain Tumblr editor in the Politics tag, I was dismayed that Tumblr would allow someone who specifically worked against reproductive justice to represent their brand. This guy held an Anti Affirmative action bake sale in his University! And this is who Tumblr saw fit to represent them. Which is to say, a person with deeply sexist and racist...
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