February 2012
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jhameia:
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
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There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I ...
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poemsofthedead:
It’s funny (not) how people can so quickly forget that Black people with natural hair styles have difficulty finding jobs and receive pressure on the job to change
whereas that does not happen to white people who try to wear braids, locs, or just frizzed out “wild” hair.
This has been proven time and time again. A major women’s magazine was called out for referring to Black...
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“Rosenberg’s First Law of Reading: Never apologize for your reading tastes.”
– Betty Rosenberg, Genreflecting (via excessivebookshelf)
I’m reblogging this post which was reblogged from me because I literally just had a conversation with a friend about my forays into escapist literature and certain kinds of romance novels and how ‘typical’ it all was and how I was apparently...
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“One of the most common biphobic narratives is that the penis is what counts. A...”
– Bisexual Men, Like, Exist And Stuff | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via a-blog-called-everything)
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The United States: Hey you better not get nuclear weapons because you're a dangerous country that might attack others for no good reason and you'll probably drop those weapons on innocent civilians.
Iran:
North Korea:
The United States:
Iran:
North Korea: Hirosh-
The United States: SHUT UP.
This whole "don't physically discipline your kids"...
milkeemountainmama:
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zorascreation:
That’s why White children are disrespectful as FUCK.
That’s why White families are FOREVER asking Black & Brown women to be mammies and Black & Brown men to be mentors to their damn pickney.
Fuck no.
Even if you don’t physically discipline your child personally, GROW A FUCKING BACKBONE AND DISCIPLINE THEM...
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“This is a pretty common perception of White Identity that should definitely be...”
– foxtalbotnegatives (via sapphrikah)
WELP!
(via sourcedumal)
#TRUTH
(via ladyatheist)
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I'm so over people judging about drug addiction.
youarenotyou:
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earthwindfire82:
Nobody woke up one Tuesday and decided “hmm..today looks like a great day to get hooked on cocaine”.
We are all one spiked drink or pain pill away from being addicted.
Remember that shit.
Yes, thank you. This. This. This.
All the white people shenanigans surrounding Whitney Houston’s passing have only underscored that we have serious...
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konjum-mainakkale:
All these people who are like ‘all Muslims are violent jihadists and they gonna kill usssss’ - I wonder if they’ve ever actually *met* a Muslim? Because there’s bad apples in every bunch (right now, I am reading that the province of Punjab in Pakistan has banned public music performance because it’s ‘un-Islamic’ and my heart is hurting because this is in...
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“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is...”
– bell hooks (via zesticola) I will never not reblog this. (via ethiopienne)
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I'm a vegetarian but
ilyasafrika:
the war between whether people should eat animals or not is just stupid and distracting when we factor in how our food in general is produced. Yes, our food system treats animals like crap and is environmentally unhealthy, but the way the majority of fruits and vegetables are produced is no better. Soil is depleted of its nutrients, diverse land is destroyed in favor of...
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“All of us who are white have been made to participate in and benefit from...”
– Joseph R. Barndt, Understanding and Dismantling Racism (via darkjez)
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People who suggest that everyone can and should be...
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selchieproductions:
I just saw someone suggest that the world would be an infinitely better place if everyone was vegan - even ‘Peruvian indigenous villages’ because we live in ‘a developed world’. In short the person is being purposely vague but ultimately suggesting making contact with uncontacted tribes in order to force them to become vegans; talk...
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19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested...
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in...
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“When you start writing a story about disability, the difficulty is that people...”
– Tom Shakespeare
And this is why it sometimes feels like most of the world can’t even see me or my friends or my family or most of the important people in my life.
(via youneedacat)
Brilliance.
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“The family’s terrifying experience is part of wider epidemic of such violence in...”
– Greece’s Epidemic of Racist Attacks - NYTimes.com
And more to the point regarding my previous post about the EU. Similar reports about growing racism and violence, this time in Greece.
(via redlightpolitics)
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“We have this entire culture that’s telling people that there’s One Right Thing...”
– On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
ETA: Oh, I really like this part, too:
Personally, I use “good consent” rather than “enthusiastic consent.” Enthusiastic consent is a problematic term. Lots of people consent to sex without enthusiasm for the...
January 2012
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“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on...”
– Quote by Toni Morrison: “In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, la…”
and when you have clarity, there is then room in your life for this.
(via milkeemountainmama)
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madamethursday:
The amount of white whine in comments for the poster about racism and “fair skin” is kind of making me facepalm so much right now.
Oh, fellow white people. That ad? Was mild. It was a mild and rather polite way of trying to tell you something that’s been an obvious fact of life for so many others in this world. But instead of engaging, you react defensively because, well, you...
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“Growing up amidst male socialization when one’s gender identity is not...”
– Natalie Reed, Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization (via transfeminism)
Yes. This is how it was for me, too.
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