April 2012
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“Ableism is a form of discrimination or prejudice against individuals with...”
– Laura Smith, Pamela F. Foley, and Michael P. Chaney, “Addressing Classism, Ableism, and Heterosexism in Counselor Education” (via seaofbadstories)
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people have asked me what fashion blogs i look at:
zombifuntime:
http://www.gabifresh.com/
http://fitforafemme.com/blog/
http://fatshopaholic.tumblr.com/
http://carefreemanicpixiecoloredgirls.tumblr.com
http://fuckyeahdarkgirls.tumblr.com/
http://tomboyfemme.com/
http://cupcakeandcuddlebunny.tumblr.com/
http://www.refinery29.com/
she hasn’t posted in a while, but still <3: http://giselaramirez.tumblr.com/
I secretly like Tavi/The...
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“I was stopped and questioned seven times by University police on my way into the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, on racism at the University of Texas, Austin (via sheikhmaat)
See also Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds...
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“Capitalism is fundamentally invested in notions of scarcity, encouraging people...”
– Dean Spade, For Lovers and Fighters
i’m sure i’ve reblogged this already but someone asked me a question about opening up a monogamous relationship today so here you go
(via a-bayani)
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daniellemertina:
somebody said, “being a woman is similar to being black as far as victim blaming” or something like that …
so i’m similar to being similar to myself ?
Black women exist folks!
This has been a PSA.
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Watchthepeculiarkind:
Thai version of Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” It’s a nearly shot-for-shot remake, starring a transwoman.
via Home Avenue’s tumblr
Happy Saturday,
TPK
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“International critical race and postcolonial theory has failed to make...”
– http://racismandnationalconsciousnessresources.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bonita-lawrence-decolonizing-anti-racism.pdf (via zombifuntime)
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“I’m trying to figure out how insulated one has to be from the wider world to be...”
– An article at Publisher’s Weekly on fans’ racist reactions to learning that Rue is black. The article also gives a shout-out to Racebending.com (via racebending)
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On Afro-Futurism: Or “I’m a Black Woman from the... →
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“there’s a place in the political sphere for direct speech and, in the past...”
– Teju Cole The White Savior Industrial Complex
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“People with Yellow Fever don’t want to get to know Asian women. In fact, I would...”
– Yellow Fever: Dating As An Asian Woman
(via zombifuntime)
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“I thought that I had kind of beaten my issues, but when you struggle with...”
– Dan “Soupy” Campbell (via morningmeditation)
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“What would it look like if the LGBT movement had a racial justice agenda? Well,...”
– Moving Beyond ‘Gay Is the New Black’: NOM’s Divisive Racial Politics and the LGBT Movement’s Need for a Racial Justice Agenda
(via queerdesi)
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Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside... →
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What It’s Like to Be a Problem - Melissa... →
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“When I interviewed Jay-Z last year, I asked him if he felt creeped out by how...”
– Ninja: A Short History of a Less-Troublesome Word - Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland
I feel like this is important because white people really like Jay-z and he’s telling them it’s not ok to say the n word. So the next time there’s a WHY CAN’T WE SAY IT uprising the dwindling number of...
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Privilege vs. Complicity: People of Colour and... →
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“When you talk to young people about being pregnant, you find out a lot of...”
– Byllye Avery (via femmenoire)
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VIRGINITY IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Virginity:
is sexist
is heteronormative
commodifies sex
commodifies young cis-het white women
contributes to rape culture
contributes to slut-shaming
erases queer folk
erases transfolk
frames a woman’s worth as inversely proportional to the number of dicks that have been inside her
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“Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace...”
– Angela Thomas (via newanddifferentsun)
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“It’s not a clever-enough subject to speak of from a public platform, but what I...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Come September” (via cuntymint)
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“To find that you are fundamentally unintelligible (indeed, that the laws of...”
– Judith Butler (via materialworld)
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“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture...”
– bell hooks (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Frida Kahlo's Private Stash Of Pictures I NPR... →
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“Ethnic is a word that doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. In Hollywood, you hear...”
– Zoe Saldana (2010)
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“Young women of color who read this book rejoiced at finally finding a book with...”
– Michigan high school student Eva Hattie L. Schueler on The Hunger Games film adaptation was published by the Huffington Post. ‘Hunger Games’ Casting: Why Jennifer Lawrence Shouldn’t Play Katniss (via racebending)
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“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This...
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“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native...”
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via pupunahsh)
truth! he was a real fan of Andrew Jackson and his tactics too
(via adailyriot)
The difference between the United Snakes and nazi Germany is that Germany lost.
(via cuntymint)
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“I have come to understand liberal white guilt as a particularly worrisome kind...”
– I Married a Marxist Monster, Ziggy Ponting
(from The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence In Activist Communities, co-edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. check our their tumblr!)
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“What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andres Romez
swarajist:
their high school principal told me I couldn’t teach poetry with profanity so I asked my students, “Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.” in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas then straightened out like an SS infantry “Okay. Please put your hands down. Now raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Rwandan genocide.” blank stares mixed with curious...
