October 2011
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Open Letter to Slutwalk
blackamazon:
Dear Slutwalk and all of it’s supporters,
Good luck I mean that ,with whatever you intend to do. However with Shira Tennant now just LYING in print , it is obvious we can not continue to hold a dialogue about this.. It’s not just a disagreement. It’s not minor. It’s resource and class violence that sadly is often the outcome of these “ movements”. Things are being made up...
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Abortion? You’re too fat to have one. →
“The receptionist started asking me her battery of questions. After about ten questions about things like how far along I was etc, she asked me my height. Alarm bells immediately started ringing and I felt sick to the stomach. Surely this wasn’t heading where I thought it was? Unfortunately, it was headed exactly there. Her next question was about my weight. I was honest, I told her my weight...
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The Mosquee of Paris helped and protected Jewish...
africando:
I literally just learned it.
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“Here are some specific behaviors I have witnessed in guys who think they’re “too...”
– Alt Text: The Nice Guy’s Guide to Realizing You’re Not That Nice (via squeetothegee)
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70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People... →
notyourkinddear:
shnelson46:
“The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report on hate violence motivated by sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and HIV status last week. The report documents 27 anti-LGBT murders in 2010, which is the second highest annual total recorded since 1996. 70 percent of these 27 victims were people of color; 44 percent of...
“Depo-Provera. Can you believe the World Health Organization is having a meeting...”
– (via afrolez)
Depo almost killed me. Thank you, Planned Parenthood, for taking me in when I had nowhere else to go, giving me free meds while withholding from me that they were, at the time, somewhat experimental and I was part of a study, lying to me about the potential effects, denying that the...
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thefemcritique:
The Dandy Lioness: Helpful and harmful things to say to a victim of sexual abuse:
Helpful:
“You’re doing a great job dealing with the situation.”
“What you are doing is very difficult and you’ve done so much already (list her actions).”
“It sounds like you have really thought a lot about the situation and what you want to do.”
“You really care a lot about your children....
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Amidsts all of this
nuestrahermana:
I would like to see white feminists within any of the SlutWalk(s), more specifically the one that actually had the woman holding this fucked up sign while other white women watched and marched along side her & said nothing, until a black slutwalk activists asked her to take it down….
I would like to see some sort of acknowledgement of these issues. So far, I don’t see much. ...
Woman is the "N" of the World?
jhameia:
Re-reblogging for postscript.
afrolez:
In 1969, Yoko Ono coinded the term and I quote “Woman is the N****R of the World.” Shortly thereafter, she and her husband, the late John Lennon, wrote and he recorded a song with that same title.
According to Wikipedia (which is ALWAYS questionable), at that time (don’t know where they would stand today), Dick Gregory and Ron Dellums defended...
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Word On the Street: Occupy Wall Street and Race
notyourkinddear:
peopleofcolor:
The Occupy Wall Street protests continue to gain steam, with media coverage of demonstrations increasing. The issue of race and the organizing of protests has prompted a lot of writing on Occupy Wall Street and people of color.
Hena Ashraf posted about the general assembly and issues of awareness and Occupy Wall Street’s assembly facilitators:
We didn’t...
Here's an interesting fact: There were 600 people...
laurasthinkingwithportalsredux:
brittanibotulism:
abaldwin360:
WTO
Occupy Wall St.
JP Morgan has also made a massive, $4.6 million dollar donation to the NYPD today. Such a strange coincidence. http://theelitist.net/nypd-receives-jp-morgan-donation-mass-arrest-of-protesters-at-occupywallstreet
Thanks to reddit user emptyhunter
Woah.
This is horrifying, actually.
Fascinating,
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leonineantiheroine:
Academic tourists sight-seeing the Arab Spring
hassibah:
darling80m:
via The arabist, an interesting peice by AUC sociology professor Mona Abaza about the inequalities between local and foreign academics who study the Middle East — especially now, as the Arab Spring has made the region the object of increased scholarly interest: :
Without sounding xenophobic, which is...
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leonineantiheroine:
SlutWalk NYC Speech
audaciaray:
Here’s what I said this afternoon:
Like many people who lay claim to the word feminist, I am a white cisgender woman. I am also a sexual assault survivor, and I am a former sex worker, and so I want to complicate a few things for you.
I stand here with a great degree of ambivalence, because the work that needs to be done to make...
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blackamazon:
thecurvature:
midwestmountainmama:
Midwest Mountain Mama: I keep seeing this all over twitter, these calls for the mainstream…
mikkipedia:
this
midwestmountainmama:
I keep seeing this all over twitter, these calls for the mainstream press to report on the protests and the “why isn’t MSM covering this?”—and to me, I’m feeling like the MSM is *not neutral*. when we call for...
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(un)Fun with statistics: unemployment by race
liquornspice:
readnfight:
So since the white unemployment crisis is one of the reasons behind Occupy Wall Street, here’s some stats on who’s been having a crisis all along.
Unemployment rates, as of January 2011: (source)
All workers, 16yrs old & up: 9.0%
Teenagers: 25.7%
Whites: 8.0%
Teenagers: 23.5%
Blacks: 15.7%
Teenagers: 46.9%
Latinos: 11.9%
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September 2011
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leonineantiheroine:
Even when there is a critique of hegemonic masculinity, masculinity—and by extension men—has to be conceived as losing more/have more at stake/a worst kind of suffering compared to femininity.
NO.
Little boys are not under more pressure to abide by strict gender norms than little girls. Why can’t kids of different genders be recognised for the oppressive gender norms that...
TW. one more time for the cheap seats?
peecharrific:
rape is not sex. rape is not bdsm. rape is not rough sex.
it’s not. rape is rape. wrap your mind around it. rape isn’t sex.
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I am the 99%
-rosasparks-:
But I am not sure I fully understand the movement.
And I don’t think I fully understand how occupying Wall Street actually calls attention to inequity in economics and societal structures.
I am a little confused as to whom belongs to this group, as well. I have seen social media and Tumblr folks mobilize, but that is severe microcosm of the population, which then puzzles me...
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via theadrianflores)
I really love this.
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soydulcedeleche:
and heres why so many 9 year old lil brown girls seen w their siblings are assumed to be their mothers: brown girls are supposed to be sexually available and active from birth.
we’re born sluts and whores. so we get no benefit of the doubt…not even if we dont have boobs yet.
so, no, i will not be reclaiming the word slut. i will not.
i have never had a choice in that.
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Ben Popken at Consumerist: 680 lb Man Fired For... →
Ronald at one point weighed 680 lbs, a fact that never interfered with his ability to do his job. He received high marks in his performance reviews. Despite this, he was fired for his weight.
The Houston Chronicle reports the man worked in a materials handling job for a military manufacturer. The job required mostly computer and desk work, along with some moving of items on shelves that were...
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“I’d not only get in the cab,” he says, “but I’d take the taxi driver out of the...”
– What Idris Elba would do if he got asked to go to the Sony Pictures offices to discuss the role of James Bond.
Perfect. Human.
(via whineandbeer)
dasfasdffffgggg
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Oh, I would SO watch a James Bond movie starring Idris!
(via downlo)
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I need to change my...
also FUCK this notion that if you're poor you can...
golden-notebook:
EDUCATION SHOULD BE A RIGHT
THE LIBERAL ARTS SHOULDN’T JUST BE A CULTURAL BASTION FOR THE PRIVILEGED
IF THE LIBERAL ARTS WEREN’T TRULY IMPORTANT THAN THE PRIVILEGED WOULDN’T KEEP EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN IN LIBERAL ARTS WHILE TELLING KIDS IN URBAN SCHOOLS THAT LIBERAL ARTS DON’T MATTER, THEY JUST NEED TO STUDY “FOR THE TEST”
IT’S THE PRIVILEGED ELITE’S WAY OF HOARDING...
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Alright I don't want to be annoying but every girl... →
zumie-monster:
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thatweirdofangirl:
thatweirdofangirl:
DC needs to know we exist and that we are pissed as fuck, and since they’re asking for us to thoroughly describe how we feel about the New 52, I say we tell them. It’s not very long unless you go on a strongly worded “liberated woman =/= sex toy for het male writers/readers” like I did. Just do it, it’s worth it.
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