February 2012
26 posts
Esoterica: I'm disgusted by the history of this... →
sourcedumal:
meghonestep:
I was in my perspectives on aftrican american males class today, and I heard some things that I am partly disgusted by, and partly pissed off that I’ve never learned about it before. I’m sick of the history of this country being hidden from me because I’m…
this makes good points.
James Dao at The New York Times: Branding a... →
She disputed the diagnosis, but it was not until months later that she found what seemed powerful ammunition buried in her medical file, portions of which she provided to The New York Times. “Her command specifically asks for a diagnosis of a personality disorder,” a document signed by the psychiatrist said.
Veterans’ advocates say Captain Carlson stumbled upon evidence of something they had...
“[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and...”
– In her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. (via nprfreshair)
If you believe that men are oppressed in this...
genderbitch:
Fuck, just unfollow the universe. Leave. Get off this fucking planet and find a place where your bullshit will not pollute oppressed people’s lives.
[TW for rape threats and severe anti-black...
Anon: Hey curiouslycool, go get raped by a chainsaw, kill yourself, go back to Africa and get AIDS/Malaria/etc etc you niggerish nigger nigger
Curiouslycool: u mad? stay mad crackers!
Other Anon: I read everything that happened on your dash tonight and you are the most racist person ever. I mean, everyone was wrong, but you were the MOST wrong.
Esoterica: Speaking of Racism, →
poemsofthedead:
tofuboots:
I was at work on register and we usually have a hired police officer who stands by the door to prevent theft. Anyway, 2 fully veiled Mulsim women came in to buy groceries and were in the store for a good amount of time buying what looked like enough to feed…
read this, it is important.
alexandraerinr: The people who respond to a... →
alexandraerin:
The people who respond to a concersation about cultural appropriation to say “a hairstyle is just a hairstyle” are bad enough, but the people who stop and acknowledge that cultural appropriation exists and is bad but then say “but sometimes a hairstyle is just a hairstyle”… what? How?
How do you…
“Because when we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a...”
– Jay Smooth, founder of New York City’s longest-running hip hop radio program, WBAI’s Underground Railroad and video blogger. (via spunkywarcannon)
Gotta reblog. This is on my favorite quotes list on Facebook for goodness sakes.
Jay Smooth is probably the most insightful person on the internet....
wow. so Jill let another racist, cissexizt,...
karnythia:
so-treu:
over on that cracker jack website of hers.
Jill don’t give a shit about women, she really doesn’t.
I need someone to explain to me how she read the word whore being used that many times in one piece & didn’t peep game. Like I’m two. I’ll wait.
the world according to nouns (she's a carnival):... →
blackamazon:
karnythia:
ok4rj:
karnythia:
So when Amanda Marcotte says the exact same thing about Rihanna that WOC bloggers have been saying for months, & suddenly it’s a good idea not to judge her? Farreal, that’s when white feminists can hear that being a survivor is…
Amanda Marcotte has been getting away with this shit for how long now? Folks that still read her work,...
Esoterica: On cultural appropriation and why, just... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Today, I walked into your house and stole your big screen TV.
I can tell you right now? You will never get this TV back.
You can spend your money and buy a new one, if you want, but the fact is that I stole your TV.
You’re probably going to be mad. Really mad, in…
love delux.: makemyeyesburn: omg. DYING.some tramp... →
makemyeyesburn:
omg. DYING.
some tramp just said my dreamcatcher tattoo is offensive towards native americans. BITCH IF ANYTHING ITS A FUCKING COMPLIMENT. my dreamcatcher has special meaning to me. i dont know whether to envy or pity you…that yr life has obviously been so free of any…
Either she doesn’t know or she gives no fucks, and I tend to think the latter.
Anonymous asked: White privileged smashing male?...
deluxvivens:
deliciouskaek:
sapphrikah:
Thanks! :) Now you’re on tumblr archives forever!
I give you, class, people who don’t think before they speak.
The fact that you had enough money to spare to “invest”, as do a LOT of your population, is a sign of your privilege.
Assuming this blogger, who is black, uses his money for “rims and bling” and then calling HIM the racist is laughable at...
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December 2011
59 posts
ashley, full stop.: Pure discrimination? →
alexandraerin:
Twice this evening I’ve responded to a Tumblr post by a person who acknowledges the bigotry of the Salvation Army (albeit while glossing over their actual discrimination outside the area of employment). This person has made it clear that he does not support the Salvation Army…
There is an alternate universe where Henry Higgins...
[TW: violence against a trans woman] Were Police... →
polerin:
Police have charged Detroit man Qasim Raqib with the murder and mutilation of 19-year-old Detroit trans woman Shelley Hilliard, alleging he burned and dismembered her body to the point where she was identifiable only by the cherry tattoo on her upper right arm.
Many LGBT bloggers figured transphobia was the motivation behind the grisly murder, but that appears not to be the case,...
Chubby, queer mermaid lovin'!
fatpeopleart:
by Melanie Gillman
http://www.etsy.com/listing/76039995/fish-bouquet-print
I love this, but at the same time am a bit creeped out by the bouquet of fish. Even though I’ve written fish-eating mermaids before.
In the future, history classes will be told that...
Something Something.. Oh Whatever.: [TW: violence... →
lucypaw:
[News reports on the murders of trans women are transmisogynist as they are rife with misgendering, using the wrong name, and stating the killers’ claims of what happened as if they were fact. I have rewritten the news report of the Christmas Eve death of a Kansas City trans woman,…
"Oh, wait. It says she has a medical degree. In...
djshambala:
I love GLaDOS, is it legal to marry abusive fictional humans-turned-robots yet
+1 on the GLaDOS love.
alexandraerinr: White Supremacy + Autism →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
liquornspice:
Here’s an excerpt from a NYTimes piece (Navigating Love and Autism) about a young man with Asperger’s Syndrome:
A chemistry whiz, he had spent much of his adolescence teaching himself to make explosives and setting them off in the woods in…
ashley, full stop.: What is your middle name, and... →
maevele:
gunugy:
otilia:
windows-vriska:
clumsyoctopus:
neophytecherryglare:
uhoh-beek:
snoipahkat:
KRISTEN
IT’S OK I GUESS
my middle name is Brooke
because i dont like my first name
… my middle name is koren
koren isnt even a…
Ashley I am so used to thinking of Full Stop as your middle name. Mine is Renee. I dislike it.
Tea and books and stupid crap: karnythia: I always... →
karnythia:
I always wonder what the women would say of our history if they could all speak. Not just wealthy white women in certain times & places who kept journals or wrote letters. All the women. The servants, the bar maids, the prostitutes, the spies, the killers, the dancers, the slaves,…
