You see something absurd. You hear something absurd. You read something absurd = Yeah,TNTG. Posts tagged marriage.
every face is priceless
at my wedding instead of saying “you may kiss the bride” i want the priest to say “you are now canon” and instead of throwing rice i want people to throw small print-outs of their favourite reaction pictures
WHEN DISCRIMINATION LOSES, THE WHOLE WORLD WINS
For JL Newspaper l Advertising Agency : Tif Comunicação, Curitiba, Brazil l Published : March 2013 l ViaWhy do people act like bob’s deadbeat dad wasn’t a huge racist asshole with a fetish for young black women :( yeah I’m mad about that watch Marley……….also since when does interracial relationships challenge racism #sallyhemmings
y’all better stop telling the truth, y’all gon hurt some feelings. lol
JUST what I was about to say! Marley’s racist ass no good white family NEVER recognized him in his lifetime! And white people are KNOWN for wanting to fuck poc not because of any love nothing, but as domination taste the exotic fruit racist ass fuckery. Whoever made this needs to go choke on shit and FUCK OFF.
This campaign did come from an agency in Brazil aka home of the country that employed miscegenation (as opposed to segregation) as their strategy to eliminate their black population, so I suppose it makes sense that they’d champion interracial relationships as a way to fight racism, when it was previously the prime fashion in which folks displayed their racism. How many times do we gotta tell folks that having a black baby does not a non-racist make?
They would. I wish I could punch everyone of them in the throat
Can we stop pretending like white enslavers didn’t rape and impregnate African women who were enslaved and that did not stop or end slavery or racism.
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Normally, I find the whole “Mrs. X” cuteness annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I support a woman’s right to call herself whatever the hell ever, but, let’s face it, married women giving up their names is a vestige of patriarchy. We choose our choices, but not in a vacuum.
That said…
I got no beef with Bey and The Mrs. Carter Tour. Again, most of the people all het up about it are not taking into account sexism as it relates to black women and images of family as they relate to the black community.
Bey ain’t giving in to any patriarchal view on marriage; the patriarchy is pretty insistent that black women are unmarriageable, unloving and unloved. And no way you can argue that Beyonce has given up her identity for Jay-Z’s. She’s Bey-fucking-once. No one forgets that. And it’s interesting that, at the same time folks are complaining about the endangered black family and off-the-chain single, black women, they also want to come for a black woman who “did it right” by Judeo-Christian, middle-class, heteronormative, white standards, and is celebrating her love for her husband and child.
Example eleventybillion that as black women we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.
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- Tami Winfrey Harris quoted by Racialicious
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Side note: Both Jay-Z and Beyonce legally share the name “Knowles-Carter”. He hyphenated his as well.
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CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
http://www.qwoc.org/2012/06/queer-rage-from-lgbt-students-of-color-poetry-performance-critiques-marriage-politics-and-is-badass/
ALL THE FUCKING CHILLS
damn, what a beautifully powerful performance.
Fucking beautiful….
“Rainbows are just a trick of the light”
Last night, this message was projected onto the Supreme Court.
via @rachnyctalk
Queer African American Women and the History of Marriage
This photo and headline accompanied an article from the October 15, 1970 issue of Jet magazine. They reveal that long before the recent struggle for marriage equality began, African American women who love women have engaged with the institution of marriage and have fought to make it their own.
Edna Knowles, on the left, and Peaches Stevens were wed in Liz’s Mark III Lounge, a gay bar on the South Side of Chicago, “before a host of friends and well wishers.” The article ended by noting, “although the duo has a type of ‘marriage license’ in their possession, the state’s official marriage license bureau reported it had no record of their license.” This ending serves to remind Jet readers that Knowles and Stevens’ union was not legitimate in the eyes of the state, as does the use of quotes around the word “married” in the headline.
However, decades prior to this bold public display of queer affection, African American female couples in New York strategized alternative ways to obtain marriage licenses in the 1920s and 30s:
“Marriage ceremonies were held with large wedding parties which included several bridesmaids, attendants, and other wedding party members. Actual marriage licenses were obtained by either masculinizing the first name, or having a gay male surrogate obtain the license for the marrying couple. These marriage licenses were placed on file with the New York City Marriage Bureau.” - Luvenia Pinson, “The Black Lesbian: Times Past-Time Present,” Womanews, May 1980 p. 8.
Also during the 1930s, popular performer Gladys Bentley was making a living singing bawdy tunes and playing piano late into the night at various clubs all over New York, including one named after her.
Bentley married her white girlfriend in Atlantic City in a ceremony to which she invited friends in the entertainment industry:
“Columnist Louis Sobol remembered Bentley coming over to his table one night and whispering, ‘I’m getting married tomorrow and you’re invited.’ When Sobol asked who the lucky man was to be, she giggled and replied, ‘Man? Why boy you’re crazy. I’m marryin’ ——’ and she named another woman singer.” - Eric Garber, “Gladys Bentley: The Bulldagger Who Sang the Blues,” Out/Look, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 52-61.
These examples show some of the various ways queer African American women have created public rituals to express their relationships and have therefore insisted on their rights to full citizenship, many decades prior to the current struggle for marriage equality.- Cookie
Amelia Earhart’s prenup, the most sober document about marriage, ever.
“ The average prison sentence for men who kill their intimate partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their partners are sentenced, on average, to 15 years.17 A pair of Maryland cases vividly illustrates this inequality in sentencing.18 In one case, a judge in Baltimore County, Maryland sentenced Kenneth Peacock to 18 months for killing his unfaithful wife. The very next day, another judge in the same county sentenced Patricia Ann Hawkins to three years in prison for killing her abusive husband. Significantly, the prosecutor in the Peacock case requested a sentence twice as long as the one imposed, while the prosecutor in the Hawkins case requested one-third of the sentence imposed.
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The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project (via illegalplumpudding)
“As many as 90% of the women in prison today [2008] for killing men had been battered by those men.15”
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