December 2010
189 posts
“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via dnka)
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Here are some things you should know about...
meloukhia:
Asexuality is diverse and there are many different ways for asexuality to express. If you want to learn more about asexuality and the ace community, the AVEN Wiki is a good place to start.
Asexual people are not ‘broken,’ experiences of sexual assault, rape, abuse, etc. do not ‘turn people asexual.’
Asexual people can be and are kinky. (Hi!)
Asexual people consume and create...
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance companies quickly followed suit, disingenuously...
chicana/xicana feminist theory books →
xicanagrrrl:
erespielmorena:
revolutionaryhips:
i need to read every single book on this list
y muy que reteke pronto!
omg, this could not have come at a more perfect time. now, to get my hands on these without money or a university ID card.
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
sheresists:
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat...
How To Use Gender Neutral Pronouns →
jadedhippy:
It’s like gender neutral pronouns 101, useful stuff!
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note to self: possible words to use instead of...
kiriamaya:
adorianmode:
thunkapotamus:
also: uncommon, unusual, unconventional, something (eg: “that’s really something!”)
-danika:
nonsensical wacky screwy (?) ridiculous illogical ludicrous preposterous absurd silly unbelievable incredible freaky bizarre feckless pointless futile outrageous harebrained (?) strange peculiar weird impressive excessive wild irrational funny unusual
I...
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"you'll get over it" isn't a useful thing to tell...
screamedatthesky:
it’s not true, either.
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Today, December 27th, marks the memory of the...
healingsakina:
zuleikha
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Missing white woman syndrome →
supersoygrrrl:
thehumorlessfeminist:
bestofwikipedia:
Missing white woman syndrome (MWWS) or missing pretty girl syndrome is a vernacular term for the alleged disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, newspaper and magazine reporting of a misfortune, most often a missing person case, involving a young, attractive, white, middle-class (or above) woman, compared with...
i hate when other people, non-disordered people,...
tranzient:
okay. what the fuck?
right now. stop breathing. just stop. hold your breath as long as you can. feel the pressure build in your lungs. watch the seconds tick away. 15, 30, 45, 60, maybe 120 if you’re special. now breathe again.
feel that relief? that “oh thank god, how was i living without that” deep gasp of air? okay now imagine that you were being dragged under by a heavy current...
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“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think...”
– Banksy - The full quote. (via therecipe)
'Our lives became something we'd never dreamt':... →
dominickbrady:
Excerpt via The Independent:
The point of this is not just that the soldier’s story is shocking, but that it is so apparently corroborated. Especially given that the conscript’s short account – unlike many others in the book, some every bit as disquieting – is based on hearsay, it is powerfully suggestive of the testimonies’ authenticity as a portrait of a 43-year-old occupation....
radicallyhottoff:
radicallyhottoff:
irene bedard
Aafia Saddiqui
Elvira Arellano
Cirila Baltazar Cruz
Jamie and Gladys Scott
the jersey seven
aiyana jones
victoria arrelano
christina madraso
Brisenia Flores
Cherrie Belle
Luz Maria Franco Fierros
(thanks for putting the HTML code on this—my internet is unbelievably slow!)
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are...”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie via rudochete. (via tobia) (via fyeahafrica) (via dancingonembers) (via trastorn)
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blonde redhead - will there be stars.
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FWD/Forward: We Are Not Your Props →
I don’t know how else to say this because I feel like I have been saying it for years, and no one is listening:
We are not props. We are not symbols. We are not rhetorical devices. We are human beings. We have free will and bodily autonomy.
Appropriating "shizophrenia" to signify rawness or...
jazzonia:
Here. Learn about what schizophrenia really is. Fetishizing mental illness to seem like a cool thing increases the stigma against people who really have mental illnesses. Additionally, depression does not imply artistic or emotional depth.
“Teachers define us. In our early years, when we are still being formed, they...”
– Stephen Sondheim (via fuckyeahsondheim)
Sondheim writing on teachers. Wonderful.
(via adorianmode)
okay. this is my first grade teacher, mrs. spencer! pretty much the reason i want to be a teacher. and she has a gay son, of whom she’s uber-accepting unlike a lot of people in my town.
lol. she...
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“I also believe we need to stop talking at sex trade workers as though they don’t...”
– What If Selling Sex Is Your Business
(via janedoe225)