persnickety poet type

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…

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, at least not entirely.

WJBK Fox 2 ports:

“New information points to Hilliard being an informant for the Madison Heights Police, and WJBK reports that she may have been the source behind a drug sting that resulted in the arrest of Raqib.

“The story says a cell phone linked to Raqib was the phone used to lure Hilliard to the location she was last seen… The cell phone was traced back to Raqib. He was arrested after police searched his Detroit home on Cedarhurst. Cadaver dogs picked up traces of human remains in the house and his Ford Expedition he just put into his girlfriend’s name. Investigators believe that’s where Hilliard was killed, but her body dismembered and burned in a house not far away that was torched that same night.”

Raqib may have killed Hilliard, but surely the police owed it to an informant to provide better protection, especially considering the alarming rate at which trans women of color fall prey to violence? Will any culpability for this heinous crime fall on them?

Tell me again why trans people, especially trans people of color, should fucking trust the police?

Tell me that her being trans had nothing to do with the police not protecting her correctly?  That it has nothing to do with having her identity ripped away by the news media?

On second thought, don’t.  I haven’t had my coffee yet.  I don’t want to deal with that kind of bullshit until well after dinner today.  Wait till then.

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,…

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…

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.

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,…

karnythia:

And while I’m in my feelings about this frat shit, let’s be honest if it had been a chapter of one of the Divine Nine or any POC oriented frat there’d be 97975864753753 special reports about the dangers frat members pose to innocent white women on campus. There would be calls to…

karnythia:

You know there are some editors & publishers who are actively looking for fresh POC voices in fiction. Admittedly I know more people in SFF & romance who are looking because that is what I read & those are the cons I attend. And it isn’t the same as writing literary fiction (which I know a lot of…

arewomenhuman:

toranseisstrong:

People who tell me my existence is invalid, wrong, unhealthy, needs fixing, shouldn’t exist, makes other people uncomfortable, and everything between that do not have an argument worth listening to. Their opinion isn’t one to bother with, what they say…

zorawitch:

Racism has been a keystone of her works since the first book, whether it be magicalist or colorist, and only a Person of Color, or a White person with a keen eye for racial politics, is able to see that the Wizarding World, though it values blood status more than other sorts of…

alexandraerin:

Laws? Where we’re going, we don’t need laws.

I’m not a lawyer but this smells fishy.

ukulelebreeze:

Now, where I’ve grown up, I’ve seen this flag displayed a lot. In high school I saw it on peoples’ book bags, t-shirts, cars, even flown proudly in their yards or (in college, though only once) from their windows.

In high school I asked my peers who did this, all of them…

maevele:

anlamasanda:

cleromancy:

Reblogging as a link to add a warning above the image, which is a gif set of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law at a panel. Downey is saying, “As for wearing each other’s clothes or crossdressing to please each other, that’s something we’re going to see next installment. Sher—” here he pauses to laugh. “Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Trannies. Jude, you have anything to add to that?” Law asks, “What can I possibly add to that?” The last gif is the two of them finding their bigotry insurmountably hilarious.

shobogan:

well

fuck seeing those fucking movies

or anything they’re ever in again

yeahhhhh 

Don’t read the notes to this post, either. Typical missing-the-point apologism. ~LIKE JEEEEEEZ IT WAS JUST A JOKE SERIOUSLYYYYY~

Crap.

Uuughh.

fantasyinminiature:

If there’s a certain amount of poetic justice in the latest round of layoffs to sweep the country, it’s a small one. In the first place, the executives who were let go all had contracts that stipulated exorbitant severance packages and in the second it doesn’t really portend anything good for the…